28 Aug
2003
28 Aug
'03
11:55 a.m.
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote:
While rate limiting ICMP can be a good thing, it has to be done carefully and probably can't be uniform across the backbone. (think of a common site that gets pinged whenever someone wants to test to see if their connection went down or if it's just loaded.. Limit ICMP into them impropperly and lots of folks notice.) Such limiting also has to undergo periodic tuning as traffic levels increase, traffic patterns shift, and so forth.
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?