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Pinging Yahoo! (WAS: Getting hacked by Digital Isle?)
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:37:53 -0400
At 09:39 AM 10/26/2001 -0700, Grant A. Kirkwood wrote: >Personally I find it annoying when some firewall administrator starts >blocking icmp. First thing I do when I've got a new router up is ping >yahoo.com. If a customer experiences connectivity issues... try pinging >yahoo.com. That gives me somewhere to start.It is interesting to note that Yahoo! presented @ NANOG a couple days ago they were getting XX Mbps (15? I forget) of ICMP traffic. They mentioned they could use this data in a decision whether to considering limiting ICMP (without actually saying they were considering limiting ICMP).
Yahoo! has been relatively good to the Internet community, and making them pay for random tests seems to be a bit less than polite, IMHO.
Perhaps we should pick something else to ping, something that is relatively ubiquitous, something that everyone knows, something that should be up all the time, something that has good connectivity, something that everyone here would not mind sending random packets for random reasons ....
Yes, I think we all came to the same conclusion. From now on, everyone should ping www.microsoft.com to test connectivity. :)
>If Yahoo started blocking icmp, I'd imagine there'd be hordes of >engineers kicking themselves, doing 'sh run' over and over looking for >something wrong.Personally, I would ping my upstream and/or some other location on the 'Net if XXX did not respond before I did "sho run". But that's me. :)
>Grant -- TTFN, patrick
Current thread:
- Re: FWD: RE: FW: Getting hacked by Digital Isle?, (continued)
- Re: FWD: RE: FW: Getting hacked by Digital Isle? Todd Suiter (Oct 25)
- Re: FWD: RE: FW: Getting hacked by Digital Isle? Jared Mauch (Oct 25)
- Re: FWD: RE: FW: Getting hacked by Digital Isle? Andy Dills (Oct 26)
- Re: FWD: RE: FW: Getting hacked by Digital Isle? Nick Thompson (Oct 26)
- Re: FWD: RE: FW: Getting hacked by Digital Isle? Simon Lockhart (Oct 26)
- Re: FWD: RE: FW: Getting hacked by Digital Isle? Dave Stewart (Oct 26)
- Re: FWD: RE: FW: Getting hacked by Digital Isle? Nick Thompson (Oct 26)
- Re: FWD: RE: FW: Getting hacked by Digital Isle? Nick Thompson (Oct 26)
- Re: FWD: RE: FW: Getting hacked by Digital Isle? measl (Oct 26)
- Re: FWD: RE: FW: Getting hacked by Digital Isle? Grant A. Kirkwood (Oct 26)
- Re: FWD: RE: FW: Getting hacked by Digital Isle? measl (Oct 26)
- Pinging Yahoo! (WAS: Getting hacked by Digital Isle?) Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 26)
- Re: Pinging Yahoo! (WAS: Getting hacked by Digital Isle?) R.P. Aditya (Oct 26)
- Re: Pinging Yahoo! (WAS: Getting hacked by Digital Isle?) Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 26)
- Re: FWD: RE: FW: Getting hacked by Digital Isle? Todd Suiter (Oct 25)
- Re: Pinging Yahoo! (WAS: Getting hacked by Digital Isle?) Alex Pilosov (Oct 26)
- RE: Pinging Yahoo! (WAS: Getting hacked by Digital Isle?) Vivien M. (Oct 26)
- RE: Pinging Yahoo! (WAS: Getting hacked by Digital Isle?) Bob K (Oct 26)
- Re: Pinging Yahoo! (WAS: Getting hacked by Digital Isle?) mike harrison (Oct 26)
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- Re: Pinging Yahoo! (WAS: Getting hacked by Digital Isle?) Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 27)
- Re: FWD: RE: FW: Getting hacked by Digital Isle? just me (Oct 26)