<div dir="auto"><div>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.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">- Mike Bolitho</div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto"><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto"><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 9, 2022, 12:43 AM Matthew Walster <<a href="mailto:matthew@walster.org">matthew@walster.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 9 Feb 2022, 07:10 Mark Tinka, <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
If Google significantly rate-limit or block 8.8.8.8 in a way that causes <br>
hardship, whatever is invented to replace it will catch on pretty quick.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And will cause a lot of bad press for them when they do it.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It doesn't matter what is invented to replace it, ping is on almost every machine, and things like nslookup alternatives etc are just too difficult to remember.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">M</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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