Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

Wed Feb 9 20:47:51 UTC 2022

I'd just like to mention that PornHub is always up. (Pun intended)  Ping it.

Aaron

On 2/9/2022 2:43 PM, Tom Beecher wrote:
> 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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