On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 2:10 PM Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe <[email protected]> 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? > > I suspect that half the reason: "ping 8.8.8.8" (do not do this!) is used is: "easy to remember 8.8.8.8" and half is: "Well, that IP is well connected enough that you are reasonably assured that: 'enough of the internet is up ....'" if it replies. (maybe it's 75/25? or 80/20 not 5050... but you get my point)
