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 ?

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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> 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)