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Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging


From: Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe <lb () 6by7 net>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 17:15:32 -0800

Orly? 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=10937 ttl=112 time=44.408 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=10938 ttl=112 time=43.480 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=10939 ttl=112 time=57.839 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=10940 ttl=112 time=38.816 ms

-LB

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On Feb 8, 2022, at 12:39 PM, Lukas Tribus <lukas () ltri eu <mailto:lukas () ltri eu>> wrote:

Hello,

On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 at 18:56, Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net <mailto:nanog () ics-il net>> wrote:

Yes, pinging public DNS servers is bad.

Googling didn't help me find anything.

Are there any authoritative resources from said organizations saying you shouldn't use their servers for your 
persistent ping destinations?

This was just posted by Matthew Walster on the outages list (since
8.8.8.8 stopped responding to ICMP somewhere):

https://peering.google.com/#/learn-more/faq <https://peering.google.com/#/learn-more/faq>


Lukas


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