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There are about 60 SLAC/Looking Glass landmarks, and about 156 PlanetLabs landmarks. We filter the landmarks nightly using tulip-tuning.pl to disable non- or poorly responding landmarks, and re-enable them when they are working well. The PlanetLab landmarks send 10 pings very quickly, whereas the SLAC/Looking Glass landmarks send five 56 byte pings with one second between them, they will also wait for a deadline time of 30 seconds for pings to be replied to.
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