On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 21:10:56 -0400, Paul wrote:

Over the years, I've used "www.sun.com" for this
test case,

I tend to use 3-letter domains, as well, because they're easy to type,
but I usually use dull stuff like cnn, msn, aol, abc, etc.

because it uses one IP address and
as far as I know, the same value world-wide.
And I think you can still ping it, amongst
other things. It's not a "pretty" web site,
but from a test perspective, it's been
consistent.

nslookup www.sun.com

156.151.59.35

Interestingly, or perhaps not, www.sun.com is a CNAME pointing to
legacy-sun.oraclegha.com, and that domain then points to 156.151.59.35.
I let it run for a while and never saw anything else.


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Char Jackson