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

[Jeff Shultz]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 2:06 PM Lukas Tribus <lukas at ltri.eu> wrote:

>
> So what should equipment manufacturers (especially firewall,
> multi-WAN, SD-WAN kind of solutions) implement as health checks for
> WAN Links, so that it can be universally usable and not dependent on a
> single ISP.
>
> Or should every SD-WAN and Firewall vendor provide their own anycasted
> ping responders? Yeah, that doesn't sound like a good idea.
>

There are Anycast service providers, they're known as Content Delivery
Networks. Let the vendors, who certainly aren't cutting their prices to the
bone, contract with them to provide ping responders. If they need to change
providers, they can come up with a flexible way to manage the change -
either updating the equipment, or simply changing DNS.


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