MicroSoft amplification?

Wed Aug 1 23:37:14 UTC 2001

On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 04:26:55PM -0700, Tony Rall wrote:
> 
> (I wonder if all Akamai setups are so affected.)

Doesn't seem like it to me:

falcon:adam% ping -s www.yahoo.com
PING www.yahoo.akadns.net: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from w5.dcx.yahoo.com (64.58.76.226): icmp_seq=0. time=75. ms
64 bytes from w5.dcx.yahoo.com (64.58.76.226): icmp_seq=1. time=73. ms
64 bytes from w5.dcx.yahoo.com (64.58.76.226): icmp_seq=2. time=87. ms
64 bytes from w5.dcx.yahoo.com (64.58.76.226): icmp_seq=3. time=102. ms
64 bytes from w5.dcx.yahoo.com (64.58.76.226): icmp_seq=4. time=76. ms
64 bytes from w5.dcx.yahoo.com (64.58.76.226): icmp_seq=5. time=67. ms
64 bytes from w5.dcx.yahoo.com (64.58.76.226): icmp_seq=6. time=68. ms
64 bytes from w5.dcx.yahoo.com (64.58.76.226): icmp_seq=7. time=62. ms
^C
----www.yahoo.akadns.net PING Statistics----
8 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip (ms)  min/avg/max = 62/76/102

--Adam
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Adam Korab	

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