Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

Wed Feb 9 12:07:15 UTC 2022

On 2022-02-09 10:32, Brian Turnbow via NANOG wrote:

> It wouldn't be too hard for ripe to setup a dns record for  ping.ripe.net and  point it towards a local anchor for each request.

Yes this is possible and it's an interesting engineering problem (as we 
also have 11000 vantage points with known geolocation and topolocation 
to help here).

The idea will need vetting with the [atlas [anchor]] community though.

> I think it could generate some interesting data for the atlas project as well.

It certainly would!

> Once it becomes popular the anchor hosters may not be so happy  about the traffic they receive , but that is another story.

I imagine we could provide a means for anchors to opt out of this.

Robert