On Thu, 7 Jan 2016, Brian R. Swan wrote:
Hi all,
Iÿÿm setting up smokeping to try and gather some latency statistics on my ISP to different parts of the world. Does there exist a list or any generic recommendations of different targets to config within smokeping? Google and searching the NANOG mailing list have failed me, and I donÿÿt want to just spam random IP addresses with ICMP requests if thereÿÿs a more official/accepted method for doing this.
8.8.8.8 is pretty popular. There's lots of them. (Anycast) But, it's not nice to send remote networks unwanted traffic (it's a DNS server, not a light house), and I know GOOG receives enough ICMP at some of those anycast nodes to be "problematic". I'd say keep your smokeping targets to devices you or your connectivity provider(s) own/are paying for rather than abusing random 3rd parties just to satisfy your curiosity. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis, MCP :) | I route | therefore you are _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________