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What's the easiest to remember publicly pingable IP address?

Asked 2009-04-16T18:00:34.070
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For frequent network troubleshooting purposes, do you know a publicly pingable host with an easy to remember IP address (such as 1.2.3.4)?

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8.8.8.8 is Google's new public dns server which is easy to remember and quite likely to be up ;-)

$ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=18.4 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=242 time=18.5 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=242 time=18.0 ms
^C
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 18.024/18.366/18.599/0.292 ms

$ host 8.8.8.8
8.8.8.8.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer google-public-dns-a.google.com.
answered 2010-04-06T11:43:44.130

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