Jeroen Massar (jeroen) writes:
> On 2013-05-23 15:58 , Phil Regnauld wrote:
> [..]
> > If this were a repeated and automated querying (say, using some
> > company's
> > web server as a target in Nagios to verify connectivity outside your
> > network, or even doing regular polling for statistics purposes), you
> > could
> > argue that it's not very polite if you're not a customer of said ISP and
> > you didn't ask for permission beforehand [1]
> [..]
> > [1] Of course, in the case of an automated measurement project, you
> > can't
> > realistically go and ask permission from everyone beforehand, but you
> > may still want to have an informational page explaining what the service
> > does and why the queries are benign.
>
> Please, do NOT go there. If you are automatically querying somebody
> else's service on a regular basis, ASK PERMISSION FIRST.
I believe you may have to re-read what I wrote :)
> Yes, doing one query once in a while (eg only once month or so) is
> typically quite fine for most operators, they won't be annoyed with that
> as heck that is normal behavior; automation is not normal.
Err, yes, agreed ?
> The moment though you start automatically querying other people's
> services, they will block you or otherwise make sure that you will not
> perform that any more.
AOL.
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