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

[Grant Taylor]

On 2/9/22 12:07 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> ... what really needs to happen is for someone at Google to figure out 
> how to monetize the ping traffic like they monetize the DNS service, 
> then it will be official. :)

Please no.

> non-abusive ICMP echo request traffic

But what constitutes "non-abusive ICMP echo request"?

I suspect that we would all feel like a human /interactively/ pining 
something (with default options) to be non-abusive.

I suspect that many of us could be persuaded to agree that automated 
systems perpetually pinging something is semi-abusive.

I suspect that most of us would agree that things that knowingly provoke 
unsavory responses, like the venerable Ping-of-Death of yore, is abusive.

I'm reluctant to lean on state, especially at Google scale, but I feel 
like the SOHO end of the spectrum can track the number of packets per 
second and / or bytes per second from a (purported) source and filter 
accordingly.



-- 
Grant. . . .
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