Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

Wed Feb 9 20:43:28 UTC 2022

I mean if you own it, it's your money. But I think I anyone else would have
a difficult time making a business or technical case to justify setting up
and maintaining a large scale echo-reply endpoint for... what exactly?

On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 3:32 PM Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe <lb at 6by7.net>
wrote:

> Perhaps owning a (small but global) cloud computing & telecom company has
> spoiled me, but it seems like a trivial amount of resources to me for any
> moderately sized company let alone a large tech/telecom like anything you’d
> have heard of.
>
> -LB
>
> Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE
> 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC
> CEO
> ben at 6by7.net
> "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company
> in the world.”
> ANNOUNCING: 6x7 GLOBAL MARITIME
> <https://alexmhoulton.wixsite.com/6x7networks>
>
> FCC License KJ6FJJ
>
>
>
> On Feb 9, 2022, at 12:15 PM, Tom Beecher <beecher at beecher.cc> wrote:
>
> 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
>> 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC
>> CEO
>> ben at 6by7.net
>> "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company
>> in the world.”
>> ANNOUNCING: 6x7 GLOBAL MARITIME
>> <https://alexmhoulton.wixsite.com/6x7networks>
>>
>> FCC License KJ6FJJ
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>> Network Engineering - CCIE #7880
>> 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV
>>
>>
>>
>
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