Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

Thu Feb 10 17:52:42 UTC 2022

Seems way easier than literally everything else being proposed to me, am I missing something?
-LB

Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE
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CEO 
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> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto:jay at west.net>
>> Network Engineering - CCIE #7880
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