[outages] Ping to Google 8.8.8.8

[Jay Hennigan]

On 2/8/22 11:33, Justin Krejci via Outages wrote:
> Seeing some hosts and not others get no reply to ICMP pings from the 
> Minneapolis, MN area. I checked using HE's looking glass, 1 of their 2 
> Minneapolis routers gets no replies. Since many use and assume 8.8.8.8 
> is invincible, this has now started setting off monitoring alerts. DNS 
> queries so far seem unaffected.

Don't do that then.

Seriously, public DNS servers were never intended to be used as ping 
targets used to measure Internet connectivity.

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