[AusNOG] Constant IPv6 pinging by Akamai

[Jeremy Visser]

On 29/12/14 09:54, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
> I won't say that it's not much but if it's being triggered by the
> number of requests per second they get, I would assume it's a result
> of a very bad programming. I think that in the above case limiting
> 10-20 pps from the same source is kind of OK.

Assuming it is telemetry to determine the best PoP, then rate-limiting is something I really don’t want to have to do because it will show up as packet loss from Akamai’s perspective and I could end up with a suboptimal PoP as a result.