| 7 Jun 2025 |
 infinisil | Alright I'll answer with that. Can also tell them to join this room if there's other problems | 22:19:01 |
| infinisil | (although if they're actually blocked in some way they might not be able to :P) | 22:19:17 |
 edef | a lot of networking equipment also doesn't answer pings or punts them to low priority | 22:19:23 |
| edef | so ICMP pings are not inherently reliable tests of connectivity or latency | 22:19:47 |
 hexa | In reply to @infinisil:matrix.org
(although if they're actually blocked in some way they might not be able to :P) Unlikely | 22:20:22 |
| edef | (and i can confirm that nixos.org indeed does not answer ICMP pings, but does answer HTTPS) | 22:20:44 |
| hexa | Relevant would he a traceroute (UDP or TCP) and a curl log | 22:21:08 |
| hexa | * | 22:21:16 |
 Sandro | My providers routers drop exactly 50% of a normal mtr ping at hop 4 or 5 | 22:43:00 |
| Sandro | not 49.5, not 51.3, exactly 50.0% | 22:43:13 |
| hexa | its because icmp echo requests leave the fast path and go to the control plane | 22:43:24 |
| hexa | the control plane is not equipped to handle a huge number of packages, so rate limiting kicks in | 22:43:47 |
