Ping tests are an important part of the network administrators’ daily operations. Ping tests are generally done according to the target location. Even there are different IP addresses for ping tests the 8.8.8.8 is the most popular IP address for the internet connectivity ping test but also the 1.1.1.1 IP address is also used for the ping connectivity tests.
What Is 8.8.8.8 Ip Address?
As the most popular IP address of the internet the 8.8.8.8 and its alternative 8.8.4.4 is the DNS server provided by Google. These IP addresses are generally used as DNS servers in order to resolve domain names into IP addresses. Especially the 8.8.8.8 is used to prevent DNS-related website and domain name blocking which is generally limited by governments. 8.8.8.8 became so popular because it was very easy to remember as an IPv4 address because all octets are 8. Even Google provides the 8.8.4.4 IP address the easy to remember feature made 8.8.8.8 very popular. The 8.8.8.8 address provides the DNS server which is open all over the internet and there is no blocking to access and ping this IP address. It is the first choice for the ping test for internet access and connectivity.
The network connection to the 8.8.8.8 Google DNS service can be tested with the ping command like below.
$ ping 8.8.8.8The output is like below as we can see that the time or RTT is very low.
Alternatively, the 8.8.4.4 IP address can be also used ping test which provides similar performance and functionality to the 8.8.8.8.
$ ping 8.8.4.4We can also use the 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 IP addresses for network tracing where every hope from the current computer to the Google DNS server IP address will be printed.
$ tracert 8.8.8.8From the output, we can see that the current computer can access with 12 hops to the 8.8.8.8 which is very similar to the ping command.
What Is 1.1.1.1 Ip Address?
Cloudflare is one of the most popular DDOS Mitigation, CDN, and related service provider. It has different data center locations all over the world and also provides DNS service. 1.1.1.1 is a DNS server that is created on 1 April 2018 by Cloudflare. Like the Google public DNS server, it can be accessed all over the internet. There is also an alternative version of 1.1.1.1 which is 1.0.0.1. The 1.1.1.1 DNS server and services are created for use with easy-to-remember numbering. The ping can be used to test via the 1.1.1.1 DNS service.
$ ping 1.1.1.1The output will be like below as we can see that the time is very very low which is about 1-2 milliseconds. This is faster than Google DNS service time.
Alternatively, the 1.0.0.1 IP address can be also used ping test which provides similar performance and functionality to the 1.1.1.1.
$ ping 1.0.0.1The Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 IP address can be used for traceroute which will show every hop to the nearest Cloudflare data center.
$ tracert 1.1.1.1From the output, we can see that the tracert takes 10 hops to the target 1.1.1.1 IP address which is less than 8.8.8.8.
Ping Response Time Classification
The ping command sends ICMP packets to the destination IP address or hostname and the destination responds this with ICMP reply packets. During this round-trip, some time goes on. This time is called as ping response time . Generally, the ping response time is related to the ISP performance sometimes it may be related with LAN, WiFi or ping destination performance. Below you can find related ping response times and their ratings.
- 35ms or less is referred as Excellent or perfect. This response time do not have any delay about the communication.
- 35ms to 60ms is referred as Avarage or Good. This response time is most common in internet.
- 60ms to 110ms is referred as Slow or Bad. This reponse time do not provides any good user experience about web browsing.
- 111ms to higher is referred as Exremely Slow and this generally means there is a connectivity bottleneck or problem.