[outages] (WI) Packet Loss to Google on Charter

[Simon Lockhart]

On Thu Jan 05, 2017 at 03:12:10PM +0000, Jesse Curtis via Outages wrote:
> I am getting ~50% packet loss to 8.8.8.8, 4.2.2.2, 216.58.216.238, and
> 172.217.1.46 on two separate Charter (Time Warner) lines in SE Wisconsin. It
> looks to be affecting just ping requests as DNS and google websites are still
> working.

Google have publicly stated that they rate limit ICMP to their public services
such as 8.8.8.8 - so if you're only seeing ping requests being dropped but all
other functionality operating as normal, then this is what you're seeing.

Simon