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Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging


From: Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 11:42:44 +0200



On 2/9/22 11:32, Brian Turnbow wrote:

It wouldn't be too hard for ripe to setup a dns record for  ping.ripe.net and  point it towards a local anchor for each 
request.
I think it could generate some interesting data for the atlas project as well.
Once it becomes popular the anchor hosters may not be so happy  about the traffic they receive , but that is another 
story.

I suppose my point is as long as we have a deliberate solution that solves specifically for this, we shall be in a better place than we currently are.

Mark.


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