[01:43:21] <Krinkle>	 Reedy: technically yes, in that we use mcrouter-primary-dc which should be reachable from anywhere. But two factors come to mind 1) ping limiter is usually a max() of three or four different buckets not just one, eg user ID, globally, locally, and by IP. From the CLI the IP one might not work well or at all, 2) when coming at it from a high level class instead of calling rate limit directly, it may have various service wiring 
[01:43:21] <Krinkle>	 conditionals or intermediate logic that special cases CLI and/or non-web entry points.