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... _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
