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

[Charles Sprickman]

> On Feb 9, 2022, at 6:14 PM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jay Hennigan" <jay at west.net>
> 
>> Every Meraki radio in the world doing that to the same target once a
>> second, on the other hand....
> 
> Oh, it's *Meraki*?
> 
> Why am I not surprised.

You’d think they’d at least ping OpenDNS/Umbrella instead of 8.8.8.8...

https://docs.umbrella.com/deployment-umbrella/docs/point-your-dns-to-cisco

They appear to be anycasted (6ms on east coast, 2ms on west coast for 208.67.222.222).

Seems like if anyone could dig up an easy to remember IP and own it, Cisco could.

Charles

> 
> Has anyone in the NANOG community pinged their tier 2 or 3 engineering
> contacts at Cisco to get that ameliorated?
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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