Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?
Leo Bicknell
bicknell at ufp.org
Fri Oct 26 02:33:43 UTC 2001
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:31:34PM -1000, Jason Forester wrote:
> As the message says, this is not an attack of any kind. It is a system
> which collects metrics for our Footprint Content Delivery System.
>
> The system is attempting to determine the closest servers to your network,
> to provide good service to your customers when they download from Footprint
> customers such as Microsoft.
Since no one has asked the relivant question, I'll ask.
Does this system probe networks only in response for a request for
content, or are networks monitored even when there are no requests
for content?
While I don't think {ping,dns,other} probes in response to a content
request are the best way to offer better service to the user, they
are at least in response to a user request, and proportional to the
number of user requests. I would find it hard to call them 'wrong',
or 'bad'.
Probing other networks 'just in case' a request comes from that
network is highly ineffective, introduces useless load to the
network, and is just plain rude.
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