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 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 12:25 PM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 2:10 PM Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe <lb@6by7.net <mailto: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?
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)