Exactly. 8.8.8.8 isn’t going down anytime soon, also is geographically redundant; even if half the internet is dead, it’ll still be there. It’s somewhat hard to duplicate that cheap.
What else is like that and easy to remember and isn’t 1.1.1.1 ? -LB Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO [email protected] "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” ANNOUNCING: 6x7 GLOBAL MARITIME <https://alexmhoulton.wixsite.com/6x7networks> FCC License KJ6FJJ > On Feb 9, 2022, at 12:25 PM, Christopher Morrow <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 2:10 PM Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe <[email protected] > <mailto:[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)
