Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

Wed Feb 9 20:15:35 UTC 2022

>
> Side note, am I missing something obvious where I can’t just have hardware
> routers strip ICMP, pipe it separately, put 500 VMs behind 4 vLBs and let
> the world ping the brains out of it?
>

Seems like a lot of overhead for zero benefit.

On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 2:11 PM Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe <lb at 6by7.net>
wrote:

> ok that’s amazing.
>
> RFC1149 amazing.
>
>
> Side note, am I missing something obvious where I can’t just have hardware
> routers strip ICMP, pipe it separately, put 500 VMs behind 4 vLBs and let
> the world ping the brains out of it?
>
> Who owns 69.69.69.69 - collab?
>
> How naff is this?
>
> -LB
>
> Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE
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> CEO
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> in the world.”
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>
>
>
> On Feb 9, 2022, at 9:38 AM, Jay Hennigan <jay at west.net> wrote:
>
> On 2/8/22 23:42, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
> The only problem is the less friendly IP address (although this will
> be less and less a problem with IPv6, since 2001:4860:4860::8888 is
> not really friendly).
>
>
> Fun fact: Someone at Sprint had the same hobby as I did in the early
> 1970s. Their website resolves to 2600:: which I think is rather friendly.
> :-)
>
> Please don't use it for an IPv6 ping target, thanks.
>
> --
> Jay Hennigan - jay at west.net
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>
>
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