Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

[Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe <lb () 6by7 net>]

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 
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> On Feb 9, 2022, at 12:15 PM, Tom Beecher <beecher () 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 () 6by7 net <mailto:lb () 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 () 6by7 net <mailto:ben () 6by7 net>
> "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.”
> ANNOUNCING: 6x7 GLOBAL MARITIME <https://alexmhoulton.wixsite.com/6x7networks>
>
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>
>
>
>
> > On Feb 9, 2022, at 9:38 AM, Jay Hennigan <jay () west net <mailto:jay () 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.
> >
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