[outages] Level 3 DNS 4.2.2.1/4.2.2.2 Atlanta Issues

Jay Hennigan jay at west.net
Wed Jan 14 14:20:09 EST 2015


On 1/14/15 6:27, Scott Howard via Outages wrote:
> If you're a L3 customer then I'd suggest reporting it to them via
> standard channels.
> 
> If you're not a L3 customer, then why are you attempting to use their
> revolvers?  If you want a public resolver, use Google.  4.2.2.x are NOT
> intended for public use, and never have been.

+1

And they have never, even for L3 customers, been advocated for use as an
automated ping target to test if "the Internet is working" or to trigger
a backup or failover scenario.

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