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well known ping servers


hi guys,

are there any well know hosts, that act as dedicated ping servers...
is there a list of these servers especially by country..  ( similair to the time servers provided
by the navy )..

ideally these server would be owned by large enough comanies or industries that
they are almost always up, and have a big enough network to handle any volume
of ping requests.



apakian...


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Hi apakian,

Most hosts on the Internet won't respond to pings for security reasons.  Can you explain a little more about what you're trying to do?

Your ISP should be able to give you some IP addresses that will respond to pings.

Whenever I want to test something, I tend to ping www.yahoo.com
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i need to have a list of well know servers hardcoded into an application,
hosts that are pretty much guranteed to be operating as ping servers
for at least another 3-4 years... as i mentions time.mil servers have been
responding to 'whats the time' requests for years now, and will do so
for a while yet.. i need the equivalent for ping.. almost like a beacon.

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You can try and use the DNS root servers. Most respond to pings and they will definately be around for a while.

Good luck
syn_ack_fin: Excellent idea :-)

Apakian, I've tested the root servers and the following are currently responding to my pings:
a.root-servers.net
c.root-servers.net
d.root-servers.net
f.root-servers.net
h.root-servers.net
i.root-servers.net
j.root-servers.net
k.root-servers.net
l.root-servers.net
m.root-servers.net

I suggest that you use the DNS name and not the IP, just in case one of the root servers moves :-)

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is there any catagorised by country,, the more detailed the better ..
like country/state ...
If you are trying to monitor your ISP/Internet connection I'd suggest asking your ISP for a host to ping/monitor.  Their name servers might be a good choice or maybe your upstream router at your ISP.
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it's not to monitor my connection,, my friend and i really need a list of
well known servers by geography... we might be setting up
a game server, and don't want the expense of setting servers
in lots of countries,, so we want to use existing well known ones..
One of the free graphical ping programs used geographic location and a map.  I can't recall which one it was.
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yes i remember it: but forgot the name :-(
I believe one of this is called viaualroute.
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sorry. guys, been away on a holiday,
a forgot that this was open..

im still looking for an answer:...

ill increase the points hopefully serving as an incentive..
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