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

Fri Oct 26 20:50:41 UTC 2001

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 04:37:53PM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> 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 ....

Is there an Akamai hostname we can ping which would get a response from the
closest cache? Or do we have to let you know in advance that we'll be doing
this?

Adi