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[Tom Throckmorton <>]

Hi all,

I discovered something interesting recently, and am wondering if anyone
else has noticed similar behavior on their NDT sites.

We've had a _significant_ uptick in testing recently against one of our
NDT instances.  What's most interesting about this is the pattern of
testing - lots of repeat tests almost exclusively from a limited number
of commercial broadband users from different providers from around the
country.  No obvious reason that I can tell for this activity - no press
releases or announcements that highlight this service our site, and
nothing that I've found from searching that I can tie to this string of
testing.  I will say that the testing appears to be somewhat regular, so
I suspect it's automated - no way of telling that for certain, though.

I'd be curious to hear if anyone else is seeing similar behavior - if
you are, or discover that you are after reading this, I'd be interested
in comparing notes.  If I work out what it is, of course I'll let y'all
know as well.

Couple of ideas that fell out of looking at this problem that would make
good feature enhancements:

- client detail/version reporting, sorta like user-agent reporting in a
web server (to discern testing via applet, or cli client, as well as
applet/client version)
- logging some detail about client queuing, if not running in
multi-client mode

Thanks, and cheers,

-tt


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