[Outages-discussion] [EXTERNAL] Re: [outages] Ping to Google 8.8.8.8

[Chapman, Brad (NBCUniversal)]

Just trying to add a bit of levity to a tense discussion...

In my 15 years of IT, I've found that there is always a relevant XKCD comic strip to provide insight or pithy commentary on any given situation.

This one is entitled "Google Announcement."

https://xkcd.com/1361/

-Brad

—Sent from my iPhone

On Feb 9, 2022, at 5:25 AM, Mark Tinka <mark at tinka.africa> wrote:



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.
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