[43219] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wanted: 'beacon' hosts ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Tue Oct 2 16:09:23 2001
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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@gitoyen.net>
To: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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("Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>'s message of
Tue, 02 Oct 2001 15:49:25 BST)
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Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 22:06:37 +0200
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On Tuesday 2 October 2001, at 15 h 49,
"Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net> wrote:
> Can anyone help (reciprocally would be fine) by providing permission to use
> ICMP Echo and HTTP GET requests against something on their network (that is
> well connected and reliable)
This is a very good idea. If you want to use www.gitoyen.net, ask me in
private.
> PS I know this is NANOG, but I am even more interested in hearing from UK
> and European networks.
Unfortunately, there is no such list for Europe :-( The closest is
lir-wg@ripe.net which talks more about bureaucratic issues and less about
technical ones.
> PPS If people are willing to offer this as a 'public' service, I will
> happily summarise back to the list and/or build a web site with details.
A Web site to exchange easily beacon hosts would be a great idea. That's why I
reply in public.