[outages] Ping to Google 8.8.8.8

[Matthew Walster]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2022, 04:45 Mark Tinka via Outages, <outages at outages.org>
wrote:

> 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.
>

Do a DNS query. You don't even have to randomise the id number, just query
for something that will have a small set of results (so, not the root) and
ensure checking is disabled. For 8.8.8.8, I'm guessing "dns.google" is
probably an excellent target.

If you wanted something generic, what about a PTR query for something in
10/8, directed at the AS112 project? That's pretty much the sinkhole that
expects that kind of unwanted traffic...

M

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