On 2012-09-10, at 13:07, Peter Koch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:56:08PM -0400, Joe Abley wrote: > >> The AS112 servers don't have such good technical properties, but they have >> the advantage that they are deployed with an expectation that junk will >> arrive. Perhaps PRISONER.IANA.ORG is a reasonable thing to ping. > > RFC 6304 does not "mandate" that AS112 name servers respond to ICMP > Echo requests.
Sure. No RFC mandates that the root servers or Facebook respond to ping, either. > If "ping" is meant to be at DNS level, then maybe, > although the expectation might also be that thanks to RFC 6303 > the reason for (and volume of) AS112 traffic would vanish. I'll not be holding my breath for that. Joe _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
