[61389] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their own
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Boyle)
Thu Aug 28 13:08:56 2003
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:02:03 -0400
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030828163944.GA5665@puck.nether.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 12:39 PM 8/28/2003, you wrote:
> > Along these lines, how does this limiting affect akamai or other 'ping for
> > distance' type localization services? I'd think their data would get
> > somewhat skewed, right?
>
> Perhaps they'll come up with a more advanced system of
>monitoring?
>
> probally the best way to do that is to track the download speed
>either with cookies (with subnet info) or by subnet only to determine
>the best localization.
>
> With an imperfect system of tracking localization, you will
>get imperfect results.
I'm not sure about other implementations, but our Akamai boxes in our
datacenter receive all traffic requests which originate from our address
space as predefined with Akamai. I believe they also somehow factor in
address space announcements originated via our AS as well since they asked
for our AS when we originally started working with them.
-Robert
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