[Outages-discussion] [outages] Ping to Google 8.8.8.8

[Matthew Walster]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2022, 07:10 Mark Tinka, <mark at tinka.africa> wrote:

> If Google significantly rate-limit or block 8.8.8.8 in a way that causes
> hardship, whatever is invented to replace it will catch on pretty quick.
>

And will cause a lot of bad press for them when they do it.

It doesn't matter what is invented to replace it, ping is on almost every
machine, and things like nslookup alternatives etc are just too difficult
to remember.


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