Re: Strange pings from akamai?

From: Christian Vogel (chrisat_private)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 08:58:58 PDT

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    Hi,
    
    > Now I know they do lots of click-thru and banner ads, but is Akamai now
    > starting to keep tabs on our online time?  or something more sinister?
    
    akamai uses ICMP-Echo-Request to optimize their load-balancing
    web-server-network.
    
    See http://www.incidents.org/archives/intrusions/msg02752.html
    
    
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