<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 9 Feb 2022, 06:58 Jay R. Ashworth, <<a href="mailto:jra@baylink.com">jra@baylink.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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But as I suggest, if that's 1 Mb/s of traffic aggregate, then the *pinging*<br>
is likely not the problem... QUICK! How many simultaneous pings is that?<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It's not the bandwidth that's the problem, it's that the service wasn't designed for that, so all of a sudden you are likely making custom forwarding rules to push ICMP Echo Requests somewhere else, and having sufficient infrastructure for it at all the same PoPs that you have the DNS service.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It wouldn't surprise me (full disclosure: former Googler, but completely unaware of anything to do with this) if it caused real issues -- I can't remember off-hand how ICMP is treated when it comes to ECMP etc, due to only having a two-way tuple involved.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">M</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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