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Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging
From: Lukasz Bromirski <lukasz () bromirski net>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 02:35:20 +0100
Mark,
On 9 Feb 2022, at 16:02, Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote: On 2/9/22 16:53, Łukasz Bromirski wrote:Yup. And Google folks accounted for the world pinging them all day long. I wouldn't call using DNS resolvers as best "am I connected to internet over this interface" tool though. A day, year or 5 years from now the same team may decide to drop/filter and then thousands of hardcoded "handmade automation solutions" will break. And I believe that's closer to what Masataka was trying to convey.I get that, but what I'm saying is that users tend to expect things to remain the same. […] If it can serve some other purpose (like liveliness detection), they will use it for that purpose in the hopes that it will always be there, for that purpose.
…aaaaaaand I absolutely agree with you on all of the points. -- ./
Current thread:
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging, (continued)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Masataka Ohta (Feb 09)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Mark Tinka (Feb 09)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Łukasz Bromirski (Feb 09)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Mark Tinka (Feb 09)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Joe Greco (Feb 09)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Mark Delany (Feb 09)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Joe Greco (Feb 09)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Mark Delany (Feb 09)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Mike Hammett (Feb 10)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Mark Tinka (Feb 09)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Mark Tinka (Feb 11)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Masataka Ohta (Feb 09)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Lukasz Bromirski (Feb 09)
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- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging J. Hellenthal via NANOG (Feb 09)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Brian Knight via NANOG (Feb 10)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Mark Tinka (Feb 11)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Mark Tinka (Feb 11)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Kord Martin (Feb 11)