Smokeping targets
Keith Stokes
keiths at neilltech.com
Thu Jan 7 16:45:00 UTC 2016
I have a couple of different SmokePing implementations related to our SaaS platform.
I have monitors inside our network looking at several of our largest customers.
I have monitors in some IaaS providers looking back at us.
I do include a couple of common addresses previously mentioned since I need some sort of confirmation to show the sites can actually get out.
On Jan 7, 2016, at 10:24 AM, Jon Lewis <jlewis at lewis.org<mailto:jlewis at lewis.org>> wrote:
On Thu, 7 Jan 2016, Brian R. Swan wrote:
Hi all,
Iÿÿm setting up smokeping to try and gather some latency statistics on my ISP to different parts of the world. Does there exist a list or any generic recommendations of different targets to config within smokeping? Google and searching the NANOG mailing list have failed me, and I donÿÿt want to just spam random IP addresses with ICMP requests if thereÿÿs a more official/accepted method for doing this.
8.8.8.8 is pretty popular. There's lots of them. (Anycast)
But, it's not nice to send remote networks unwanted traffic (it's a DNS server, not a light house), and I know GOOG receives enough ICMP at some of those anycast nodes to be "problematic".
I'd say keep your smokeping targets to devices you or your connectivity provider(s) own/are paying for rather than abusing random 3rd parties just to satisfy your curiosity.
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