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

Question

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)?

Answer 1

127.0.0.1 works every time and is very easy to remember.

Actually, I would recommend using hostnames: c:[windows directory]\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Answer 2

Take any host and use hotstrings !

ip1:: 122.123.232.98

After that , when I type ip1 it wll replace it with 122.123.232.98 That way you can take any host and don't need to remember anything.

Answer 3

Looks like 60.1.1.1 works.

Answer 4

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping -a 4.2.2.2

Pinging vnsc-bak.sys.gtei.net [4.2.2.2] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=246
Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=246
Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=246
Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=246

Ping statistics for 4.2.2.2:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 10ms, Maximum = 14ms, Average = 11ms

Answer 5

I use 4.2.2.2

Answer 6

4.2.2.2
4.2.2.6

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

add these in /etc/hosts for easy pinging :)

Answer 7

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.