Physically Impossible Ping Times

42 points by notpopcorn 4 years ago | 3 comments

toast0 4 years ago |

This is clever, normally you need an anycast setup to get low pings from around the world.

ay 4 years ago | |

Anycast setup will get you actual low ping times.

This trick doctors the timestamps within the payload, so it reports as if the ping time was shorter.

It is a subtle but quite important difference.

mrlonglong 4 years ago |

How many of you tried to click on the test button without thinking ? I just caught myself doing just that!