I'm not looking to do the pinging myself. I have my own destinations I use. I also use the RIPE system on occasion. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephane Bortzmeyer" <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog@ics-il.net> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 12:46:54 PM Subject: Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 11:56:44AM -0600, Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote a message of 140 lines which said:
Are there any authoritative resources from said organizations saying you shouldn't use their servers for your persistent ping destinations?
Why not using RIPE Anchors, which are made to be pinged (reasonably)?