[outages] Ping to Google 8.8.8.8

[Grant Taylor]

On 2/8/22 11:46 PM, Mark Tinka via Outages wrote:
> You mean like PMTUd, and such :-)?

Not what I originally meant, but sure.

> 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".

Probably some, for a while.  (See more below.)

> 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 :-(...

So ... an end user education issue.

  - No, the Internet is not down.
  - The specific test you are doing is (now) bad (for reasons).
  - See how your $StreamingServiceVideo is still playing?  --  Did you 
receive the test email I just sent you?

The Internet is /up/.

Who should be responsible for an ISP's user base?  I'd naively think 
that the ISP should be responsible for their own user base.  Why should 
we foist this responsibility off onto another organization?



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die

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