Re: Strange pings from akamai?

From: Christian Vogel (chris@obelix.hedonism.cx)
Date: 08/08/02 

From: Christian Vogel <chris@obelix.hedonism.cx>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 17:58:58 +0200
To: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>

Hi,

> 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?

akamai uses ICMP-Echo-Request to optimize their load-balancing
web-server-network.

See http://www.incidents.org/archives/intrusions/msg02752.html 

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