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

[Mark Tinka]

On 2/9/22 15:12, Mike Bolitho wrote:

> 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.

The only people who will fuss is the network operations community. And 
that is half a drop in the sea.

Mark.