Smokeping targets
Jon Lewis
jlewis at lewis.org
Thu Jan 7 16:24:47 UTC 2016
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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