[185928] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is there a DNS lookup, traceroute, ping and HTTP GET as a service?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Wed Nov 18 11:50:32 2015
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 18:50:19 +0200
To: Kurt Kraut <listas@kurtkraut.net>,William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
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At 14:38 18/11/2015 -0200, Kurt Kraut via NANOG wrote:
Try: https://asm.ca.com/en/
-Hank
>Hi,
>
>
>Thank you for the quick replies. Sorry for not being clear enough: I need
>it to have an API so I can integrate it with my own solution, generate my
>own metrics. So looking glasses are pretty much useless: they don't support
>HTTP GET and DNS lookup (usually) and the parsing for so many different
>HTML or telnet sources would be very time consuming.
>
>Also I've seen many looking glasses with captchas to halt these intents. So
>I need a SaaS with an API for these tests.
>
>About RIPE ATLAS, I already have one of their boxes and it never worked.
>Simply doesn't appear as online. Their support just barely gave me some
>tips but with no meaningful result. I need something reliable and I'm
>willing to pay for this service. RIPE Atlas falls in the category of 'best
>effort'.
>
>
>Best regards,
>
>
>Kurt Kraut
>
>2015-11-18 14:32 GMT-02:00 William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Kurt Kraut via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
> > wrote:
> > > I'm evaluating different datacenters and vendors accross the globe and it
> > > isn't worthy to perform tests like DNS, traceroute, ping and HTTP GET
> > from
> > > my office. I need to be able to perform this tests remotely, from
> > multiple
> > > endpoints.
> >
> > For common tests like ping and traceroute, google "ip looking glass".
> > There are a lot of them in a lot of locations, all free to use.
> >
> > -Bill
> >
> >
> > --
> > William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us
> > Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
> >
