Physically Impossible Ping Times(twitter.com)

42 pointsby notpopcorn5 lat temu3 comments

https://twitter.com/m_ou_se/status/1480184730058375176

2 comments

toast05 lat temu

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

ay5 lat temu

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.

mrlonglong5 lat temu

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