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Maybe you should slow down the ping interval a bit, because there is no authentication and someone might run it on a big number of IPs of the same network class
by ivanhoe 12y ago
Maybe you should slow down the ping interval a bit, because there is no authentication and someone might run it on a big number of IPs of the same network class, and that will quickly get your IP banned on routers. No one really needs to check the server every 5 seconds (not on free service at least). Perhaps you can make a burst of 4-5 pings every minute or 5 minutes, that would be quite sufficient IMHO, and would significantly reduce your traffic and expenses.
- vruiz 12y agoI gave the interval some thought, and while I might have to increase it in the future, I think 5 seconds is a good place to start. This is just a single innocuous ICMP echo packet, not port scanning. And a single user can only set up 10 pings, so it will require quite some manual effort to generate some noticeable traffic. When I implement HTTP checks however, yes, the interval will have to be in the minutes.