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#315176 19-Jun-2024 16:59

The firewall/router I use does periodic Internet connectivity tests by pinging a few static IP addresses, however since they're things like 8.8.8.8 they're vulnerable to false positives which leads to annoying alerts. Does anyone know of any easily-reachable NZ static IP addresses I could use in place of the built-in US ones?

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#3250893 19-Jun-2024 17:01

Probably best to find one that your ISP hosts - have you tried pinging their DNS servers?

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#3250894 19-Jun-2024 17:02

Ah, good point. Let me check.

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#3250908 19-Jun-2024 17:53

Who's your ISP? Best to use one of the servers else just use 1.1.1.1 which will hit Cloudflare's nodes in AKL or CHC.

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#3250912 19-Jun-2024 17:55

Use my website if you want... its locally hosted. :D

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#3250913 19-Jun-2024 18:00

Jiriteach:

Who's your ISP? Best to use one of the servers else just use 1.1.1.1 which will hit Cloudflare's nodes in AKL or CHC.

Yeap ping is a whole lot better than Google DNS too.

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#3250915 19-Jun-2024 18:14

Ah, so 1.1.1.1 is local... I've currently got it set to the ISP's DNS servers and that, let's see if the FP's go away.

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#3250921 19-Jun-2024 18:57

1.1.1.1 is not guaranteed to be local. It could be anywhere in the world depending on network conditions.

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#3250935 19-Jun-2024 19:35

OK, so that doesn't seem to have fixed it. Opened a ticket with the vendor.

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#3250936 19-Jun-2024 19:36

neb:

OK, so that doesn't seem to have fixed it. Opened a ticket with the vendor.

What firewall/router are you running and who's your ISP?

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#3250937 19-Jun-2024 19:42

Firewalla, I think their link liveness-detection mechanism may be a bit too simplistic.

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#3250940 19-Jun-2024 19:55

neb:

Firewalla, I think their link liveness-detection mechanism may be a bit too simplistic.

Documentation shows they do quality tests by pings on a freq. Most do this now and use standard points like Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) or Google (8.8.8.8). If you seeing decent pings doing them manually ~ 30msec to Google or ~ 15msec to Cloudflare depending on your ISP - then it could be a firmware issue as opposed to a wider network issue.

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#3250941 19-Jun-2024 19:57

Would typically turn those tests off anyways and use something like SmokePing for better results.

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#3250947 19-Jun-2024 20:19

Jiriteach:

Who's your ISP? Best to use one of the servers else just use 1.1.1.1 which will hit Cloudflare's nodes in AKL or CHC.

Interesting! I did not know this.

For me from a Vodafone connection, 8.8.8.8 is 9 hops and 37ms away. 1.1.1.1 is 8 hops and 9ms away. (Unscientific testing using Wi-Fi and getting the average of 20 pings.)

For my brief testing in the past, I've occasionally picked on nz.pool.ntp.org which I believe delivers up one of a selection of NZ-based NTP servers. pool.ntp.org: NTP Servers in New Zealand, nz.pool.ntp.org (ntppool.org)

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#3250949 19-Jun-2024 20:25

Dynamic:

Interesting! I did not know this.

For me from a Vodafone connection, 8.8.8.8 is 9 hops and 37ms away. 1.1.1.1 is 8 hops and 9ms away. (Unscientific testing using Wi-Fi and getting the average of 20 pings.)

For my brief testing in the past, I've occasionally picked on nz.pool.ntp.org which I believe delivers up one of a selection of NZ-based NTP servers. pool.ntp.org: NTP Servers in New Zealand, nz.pool.ntp.org (ntppool.org)

Does depend on your ISP and routes to certain points. I typically use speedtest servers around the country and see -

~ 2msec to servers in Wellington
~ 10msec to servers in Auckland
~ 5msec to servers in Christchurch
~ 30msec to servers in Sydney

via one of my Spark connections in Wellington.
https://smokep.se7en.co.nz/

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#3274019 21-Aug-2024 00:25

An update on this, does anyone know of any pingable addresses on 2Degrees? You can't ping their DNS servers, and I'd like to have something that isn't half-a-dozen hops away, I just need to check whether I can get from the device to 2Degrees' network.

Edited to add: The reason they're not pingable is that the published values are wrong, DHCP returns addresses 118.148.12.10 and 118.149.12.10 which are pingable.

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