On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 09:08:04AM +0200, Mark Tinka <mark at tinka.africa> wrote a message of 25 lines which said: > It's terrible behaviour, but unless we offer a more "official" > alternative, it won't end. Let me repeat that there is a service which is officially intended to be pinged/queried/etc, the RIPE Anchors.