Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

[Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>]

I mean if you own it, it's your money. But I think I anyone else would have
a difficult time making a business or technical case to justify setting up
and maintaining a large scale echo-reply endpoint for... what exactly?

On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 3:32 PM Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe <lb () 6by7 net>
wrote:

> 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
> CEO
> 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>
>
> FCC License KJ6FJJ
>
>
>
> 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> 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
> > "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 9:38 AM, Jay Hennigan <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.
> >
> > --
> > Jay Hennigan - jay () west net
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