Curious Chris, What IP's are they probing? LAN IPs? Or just the DNS server as they claim? And what then do these pings have to do with [quote from D.I.] "finding the nearest servers from our customers (Microsoft) to you"? What good does it do to ping to find distances, since the timing on the internet is not a constant, and neither are the pops, routes, hops...etc. This is why we use routing tables that are not constant... I really see no honest reason to be ping-probing one's LAN. And in the spirit of the internet and "good faith" behavior, a better explaination is warranted.
At 08:37 PM 10/25/2001, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:
Unfortunately, in this case I am not a customer of Digital Island in any way, nor have I given them authorization to hammer my network 441 times (and counting) in the last two hours.
They're of the opinion that they don't need your permission... if they want to hammer your network, they will.
'course, a nice ACL at the borders reminds 'em who your network actually belongs to