Re: Smokeping targets

[Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>]

On Thu, 7 Jan 2016, Brian R. Swan wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Iÿÿm setting up smokeping to try and gather some latency statistics on 
> my ISP to different parts of the world.  Does there exist a list or any 
> generic recommendations of different targets to config within smokeping? 
> Google and searching the NANOG mailing list have failed me, and I donÿÿt 
> want to just spam random IP addresses with ICMP requests if thereÿÿs a 
> more official/accepted method for doing this.

8.8.8.8 is pretty popular.  There's lots of them. (Anycast)

But, it's not nice to send remote networks unwanted traffic (it's a DNS 
server, not a light house), and I know GOOG receives enough ICMP at some 
of those anycast nodes to be "problematic".

I'd say keep your smokeping targets to devices you or your connectivity 
provider(s) own/are paying for rather than abusing random 3rd parties just 
to satisfy your curiosity.

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