[186861] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Smokeping targets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Thu Jan 7 11:24:51 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 11:24:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: "Brian R. Swan" <swannie@swannie.net>
In-Reply-To: <45C21B36-2FDF-4624-A261-7985407E7AC9@swannie.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Thu, 7 Jan 2016, Brian R. Swan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I˙˙m setting up smokeping to try and gather some latency statistics on
> my ISP to different parts of the world. Does there exist a list or any
> generic recommendations of different targets to config within smokeping?
> Google and searching the NANOG mailing list have failed me, and I don˙˙t
> want to just spam random IP addresses with ICMP requests if there˙˙s a
> more official/accepted method for doing this.
8.8.8.8 is pretty popular. There's lots of them. (Anycast)
But, it's not nice to send remote networks unwanted traffic (it's a DNS
server, not a light house), and I know GOOG receives enough ICMP at some
of those anycast nodes to be "problematic".
I'd say keep your smokeping targets to devices you or your connectivity
provider(s) own/are paying for rather than abusing random 3rd parties just
to satisfy your curiosity.
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