[outages] [EXTERNAL] Ping to Google 8.8.8.8

[Nathanael Newton]

I'm starting to get authentication failures when connecting to
IMAP.Gmail.com

Payment gateways and things have been really sluggish, jit emails are not
coming through in time..

On Tue., Feb. 8, 2022, 3:58 p.m. Mike Bolitho via Outages, <
outages at outages.org> wrote:

> Yes, it has been this way for at least a decade. DNS are not polling
> servers.
>
> - Mike Bolitho
>
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2022, 1:29 PM James Host via Outages <outages at outages.org>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Christopher Conley
>>>
>>> Systems Administrator |  Fors Marsh Group
>>>
>>> 1010 N. Glebe Rd, Suite 510
>>>
>>> Arlington, VA 22201
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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