asm.ca.com (formerly just-ping.com) and FreeBSD

[Jim Ohlstein]

Hello,

I apologize if this has been asked or brought up here before but I 
couldn't find it, so here goes. I've used the above site to check ping 
times and troubleshoot connectivity issues in the past but hadn't used 
them in a bit.

All of my FreeBSD servers (different data centers in different countries 
using different ethernet adapters) report 20-50% packet loss from this 
service from all of their IPv4 servers. IPv6 generally shows no packet 
loss. Using other ping services I see no packet loss, nor do I see them 
from one server to the next. Servers using Solaris or Linux do not have 
the same packet loss, even servers that are on the same /24 (or VM's in 
the same host!).

Does anybody know the reason? More an intellectual curiosity than a 
functional issue as the problem does seem to be on their end.

Thanks, and please Cc me on reply as I don't subscribe to this list.

-- 
Jim Ohlstein


"Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the 
difference." - Mark Twain