The day my ping took countermeasures
News Source : Cloudflare.com
News Summary
- Debugging the network is a mandatory first step after a boot, right?
- As expected, the network was perfectly healthy but what caught me off guard was this message: I was not expecting ping to take countermeasures that early on in a day.
- The code is straightforward: the message in question is printed when the measured RTT is negative.
- In this case ping resets the latency measurement to zero.
- "taking countermeasures" is nothing more than just marking an erroneous measurement as if it was 0ms.
Once my holidays had passed, I found myself reluctantly reemerging into the world of the living. I powered on a corporate laptop, scared to check on my email inbox.
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