Pinging Yahoo! (WAS: Getting hacked by Digital Isle?)

Fri Oct 26 22:11:15 UTC 2001

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Vivien M. wrote:

> > Yes, I think we all came to the same conclusion.  From now on, everyone 
> > should ping www.microsoft.com to test connectivity. :)
> 
> They outsmarted us already in Redmond, sadly.
> vivienm at quartz:~$ ping -s www.microsoft.com
> PING www.microsoft.com: 56 data bytes
> ^C
> ----www.microsoft.com PING Statistics----
> 19 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
> 
> There are a few other organizations that fit your criteria, though,
> methinks... some of whom allow ICMP just fine and provide things that
> are slightly more vital than microsoft.com :)

What's below doesn't quite fit the 'vital' criteria, but...

6:08:57pm|melange at pi:/home/melange> ping -c 1 www.riaa.org
PING www.riaa.org (208.225.90.120): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 208.225.90.120: icmp_seq=0 ttl=111 time=29.475 ms

--- www.riaa.org ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 29.475/29.475/29.475/0.000 ms
6:09:06pm|melange at pi:/home/melange> 

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