[outages] [EXTERNAL] Ping to Google 8.8.8.8

[James Host]

Is it that atypical for these public-facing services to drop ICMP when they
get hot? I'd not consider it an indicator of service down unless you're
getting SRVFAILs

James Host
Architect - CDN Platform
E: jhost at vultr.com


On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 12:01 PM Christopher Conley via Outages <
outages at outages.org> wrote:

> This happens occasionally on 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. We used to use these IPs
> as Internet reachability tests for determining failover to backup circuits
> and moved away from it after the first occurrence of this happening.
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> Christopher Conley
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> Systems Administrator |  Fors Marsh Group
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> 1010 N. Glebe Rd, Suite 510
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> Arlington, VA 22201
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> *From:* Outages <outages-bounces at outages.org> *On Behalf Of *Justin
> Krejci via Outages
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 8, 2022 2:34 PM
> *To:* outages at outages.org
> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] [outages] Ping to Google 8.8.8.8
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>
> 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.
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