Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

Wed Feb 9 20:29:58 UTC 2022

Exactly.  8.8.8.8 isn’t going down anytime soon, also is geographically redundant; even if half the internet is dead, it’ll still be there.    It’s somewhat hard to duplicate that cheap.

What else is like that and easy to remember and isn’t 1.1.1.1 ?

-LB

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> On Feb 9, 2022, at 12:25 PM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 2:10 PM Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe <lb at 6by7.net <mailto:lb at 6by7.net>> wrote:
> ok that’s amazing.
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> RFC1149 amazing.
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> 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?
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> I suspect that half the reason: "ping 8.8.8.8" (do not do this!) is used is: "easy to remember 8.8.8.8"
> and half is: "Well, that IP is well connected enough that you are reasonably assured that: 'enough of the internet is up ....'" if it replies.
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> (maybe it's 75/25? or 80/20 not 5050... but you get my point) 

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