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RE: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging


From: Brian Turnbow via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 09:32:14 +0000

On 2/9/22 09:30, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:


Let me repeat that there is a service which is officially intended to
be pinged/queried/etc, the RIPE Anchors.

Yeah, but how do we get out there in a manner that Jane can easily find and
use, like she does 8.8.8.8?

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.

Brian



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