On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 11:43 AM Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 2:39 PM Aaron C. de Bruyn <aaron@heyaaron.com> wrote:
Why isn't there a well-known anycast ping address similar to
Get someone to carve out some well-known IP and allow every ISP on the
Maybe even a second well-known IP that is just a very small webserver
CloudFlare/Google/Level 3 DNS, or sorta like the NTP project? planet to add that IP to a router or BSD box somewhere on their network? Allow product manufacturers to test connectivity by sending pings to it. It would survive IoT manufacturers going out of business. that responds with {'status': 'ok'} for testing if there's HTTP/HTTPS connectivity.
It sounds like, to me anyway, you'd like to copy/paste/sed the AS112 project's goals, no?
Or at least expand on it, to define specific IPs within 192.175.48.0/24 and 2620:4f:8000::/48 as ICMP/ICMPv6 probe destinations If every manufacturer knew that, say 2620:4f:8000::58 was going to respond to ICMPv6 ping requests (::58 chosen purely because it matches the IPV6-ICMP protocol number), it would surely make it easier for them to do "aliveness" probing without worries that a single company might go out of business shortly after releasing their product. Certainly worthy of proposing to the AS112 operators, I would think. :) Matt