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

[Mike Bolitho]

It creates no bad press for them. They've been doing this for the better
part of a decade. There is nothing that says any public facing server needs
to permit ICMP traffic. Polling servers have been around forever anyway,
they're not some new technology or something. They aren't limiting DNS
queries anyhow.

- Mike Bolitho




On Wed, Feb 9, 2022, 12:43 AM Matthew Walster <matthew at walster.org> wrote:

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>
> 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.
>
>
> M
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