Strange pings from akamai?

From: Jeff Kell (jeff-kell@utc.edu)
Date: 08/08/02 

Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 23:33:49 -0400
From: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
To: Incidents <incidents@securityfocus.com>

Out of the wild blue, I logged some unexpected pings:

209.92.223.82:0(209-92-223-82.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com) ICMP Ping

Now I know they do lots of click-thru and banner ads, but is Akamai now
starting to keep tabs on our online time? or something more sinister?

This was logged on my home computer firewall, I wasn't even here. I
don't bother with logging pings at the office so I don't know if this
is widespread or I just happened to be singled out for some reason.

Anyone else seen this?

Jeff

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