Max ping response time?

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Published on 2010-06-02T04:28:07Z Indexed on 2010/06/02 4:34 UTC
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I'm wondering what a maximum (practical) ping response time might be. As far as I know, there isn't a max defined anywhere (TTL, but that's hops, not time). As I think about it, I'm not sure I've ever seen a ping response time of more than a second or so. But as far as I know, there is nothing to stop a remote host from waiting (or being really busy) and not sending the response back for a few seconds.

As a simple data point, I just pinged a number of servers around the world and the worst time I could find was 350ms.

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