[atlas] packet loss seen by probes to labs.ripe.net?

On 02.11.2011 14:35 wrote Robert Kisteleki:
> The preliminary answer is that there is ICMP rate limiting close to the Labs
> servers. The more probes execute ping measurements, the more often they
> trigger the limiting. Since the network grew continuously in the past weeks
> (and before), rising failure rates per probe can be expected.
>
> I'll try to confirm this with people who know more about the Labs
> architecture. But if I'm right (I think I am), then Atlas is measuring
> precisely what it should... and as a by-product, also its own growth :-)

So, in other words: The Atlas probes themselves are turning into a DDOS 
botnet?

BR
Daniel AJ