On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 11:43 AM Christopher Morrow <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 2:39 PM Aaron C. de Bruyn <[email protected]> > 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. > > > > 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
