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Google peering pains in Dallas
- Subject: Google peering pains in Dallas
- From: sethm at rollernet.us (Seth Mattinen)
- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:05:03 -0700
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On 4/30/20 11:38 AM, Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG wrote:
> Why isn't there a well-known anycast ping address similar to
> CloudFlare/Google/Level 3 DNS, or sorta like the NTP project?
> Get someone to carve out some well-known IP and allow every ISP on the
> 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.
> Maybe even a second well-known IP that is just a very small webserver
> that responds with {'status': 'ok'} for testing if there's HTTP/HTTPS
> connectivity.
>
Maybe run a "ping prisoner.iana.org" on ATLAS and see how universal it
responds? It's possible some of the operators may block ICMP (I don't).