[outages] Ping to Google 8.8.8.8

[Mark Tinka]

On 2/8/22 21:51, Jay Hennigan via Outages wrote:

>
> Don't do that then.
>
> Seriously, public DNS servers were never intended to be used as ping 
> targets used to measure Internet connectivity.

That ship long sailed.

If we want to stop this behaviour, we'll have to do something about it, 
specifically, offering an alternative to Internet users that is regarded 
as official, e.g., like we do with other public services such as NTP.

Mark.