Except that the very reason This Thread started was because 8. 8. 8. 8 was not responding to pings and cause issues with many facturar hard-coded destinations.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe <l...@6by7.net> To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> Cc: NANOG Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 14:29:58 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Exactly. 8.8.8.8 isn’t going down anytime soon, also is geographically redundant; even if half the internet is dead, it’ll still be there. It’s somewhat hard to duplicate that cheap. What else is like that and easy to remember and isn’t 1.1.1.1 ? -LB Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@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 12:25 PM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 2:10 PM Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe <l...@6by7.net > <mailto:l...@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? > > > I suspect that half the reason: "ping 8.8.8.8" (do not do this!) is used is: > "easy to remember 8.8.8.8" > and half is: "Well, that IP is well connected enough that you are reasonably > assured that: 'enough of the internet is up ....'" if it replies. > > (maybe it's 75/25? or 80/20 not 5050... but you get my point)
