[outages] Ping to Google 8.8.8.8

[Mark Tinka]

On 2/9/22 07:30, Grant Taylor via Outages wrote:

>
> Many ships have sailed, as in left the dock, but never reached their 
> destination.

You mean like PMTUd, and such :-)?

We probably won't get that one back, and unless we do something, 
inability to ping 8.8.8.8 will result in unnecessary NOC tickets 
claiming "the Internet is down".


>
> That's /one/ option.
>
> Another option is for Google, et al., to simply drop ICMP packets to 
> their DNS servers.
>
> Is this heavy handed?  Probably.
>
> Is it a viable option to persuade people to not ping said DNS servers? 
> yes.
>
> Will it achieve the desired result of having people stop pinging 
> Google's DNS servers?  Quite likely.  Admittedly with a long tail.

Yes, this helps Google not having to deal with the problem, but it 
passes the burden both to the ISP who has to explain why the Internet is 
now down, and to some other online service who now has to sink ping 
traffic. Perhaps Yahoo will pick that priviledge up again, like they did 
back in the day :-(...

Mark.