On Monday 09 May 2005 12:39 pm, Ziggy David Lubowa wrote:
> On Mon, 9 May 2005 10:32:35 +0200, Mark Tinka wrote
>
> > Was wondering, anyone know of anyone who's been able to
> > account for how much of Yahoo's Internet access
> > capacity goes to random net testers; you know, ping
> > www.yahoo.com; traceroute www.yahoo.com, telnet
> > www.yahoo.com 80, e.t.c.
> >
> > I can't think of a single engineer that doesn't use
> > them to test connectivity. Would be nice to know how
> > much bandwidth they expend on this.
>
> Not to sure if anyone can give us a definate answer on
> something like this ( am guessing though i stand to be
> corrected ) , but a good benchmark which doesnt really
> tell you how much bandwidth they actually "waste" so to
> speak but you can atleast know where they rank say
> failure wise.

Not to mention their "load balancing" based on source IP 
makes it even more interesting to monitor... 
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