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

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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

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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.

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