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

[Mark Tinka]

On 2/10/22 10:09, Giorgio Bonfiglio wrote:

> I'm not sure an AS112-like alternative would be what we want here: for
> the average user reaching Google/Facebook/Akamai/CloudFront is far more
> important than reaching some random AS hosting the closest AS112 instance.

I'm not precious about whether it's AS112, AS112-like, or something 
else. Just as long as it is built for purpose, simple to use and easy to 
remember.


> Overall, it's probably not fair expect to change the behaviour which
> leads users to test common destinations for validating whether their
> internet service is available. If we started pushing "ping 8.8.8.8" out
> of people's mindset, they will likely move to "curl google.com".

And that will be because we have no offered an alternative that is built 
for purpose.

Mark.