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Google should run a server on 1e100.net and redirect it to this answer. Some click tracking domains do this, and it helps non-technical people feel less worried

Google should run a server on 1e100.net and redirect it to this answer. Some click tracking domains do this, and it helps non-technical people feel less worried when they punch the domain into their web browser and it goes somewhere with an explanation.

walrus01 8y ago
For some ISPs, if you go to https://as12345.net https://as12345.net (where the 12345 is their globally unique AS number), you'll get a looking glass tool. Or a page with a link to their looking glass, contacts for NOC and abuse for use in NOC-to-NOC communications, etc. I don't think Google would do that, though.
- delroth 8y ago
  Google has https://peering.google.com/ https://peering.google.com/ for that purpose. My understanding is that it provides similar tooling for ASNs that have a relationship (peering, etc.) with Google ASNs.
  - walrus01 8y ago
    Yes, Google is pretty easy to peer with. At major public IXes they will bring up their V4 and v6 sessions on their side before yours, and leave them in an enabled state, since they use a suite of automation tools to manage traffic flows to regional peers. This makes it easy to bring up the session on your side and immediately see routes and live bgp prefix exchanges going both directions without having to interact with their noc. Given the number of peers that they have around the world, it would be very labor intensive to hand craft a bgp session config and leave it in a down state until mutual noc contact was made to bring it live. They obviously have a great interest in getting traffic like YouTube videos to the residential/commercial downstream eyeball ISP end users as efficiently as possible.
  - skunkworker 8y ago
    I wish google would peer their fiber with Comcast better. That pipe is too small.
- deleted 8y ago
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