Digital BW, The Print

> A lot of large servers don't respond to pings, like www.microsoft.com. I
> suspect it's because whenever someone wants to make sure their DSL isn't
> dead, they ping www.microsoft.com, and they just got tired of the millions
> of pings.

I don't know why they turned off ping replies, but network load can't be
the reason.  With the load they are already carrying for everything
else, the load from pings isn't going to make much of a dent in
anything, either for bandwidth or for server horsepower.