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Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging
From: Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2022 11:17:26 +0200
On 2/11/22 16:58, Jon Lewis wrote:
I have to admit, I haven't read most of this thread, but I am well aware of the issues with both end users and "routers" / firewalls pinging 8.8.8.8 as a means of verifying "that path to the Internet is working". I know GOOG doesn't appreciate the amount of ICMP echo requests their 8.8.8.8 instances receive, and that at various times/places, that ICMP traffic is/has been policed by GOOG.So...here's a pair of "what if"s:What if instead of pinging 8.8.8.8, all these things using it to "test the Internet" sent it DNS requests instead? i.e.GOOG=$(dig +short @8.8.8.8 google.com) if [ -z "$GOOG" ] ; then echo FAILfi Would that make things better or worse for GOOG (Trading lots more DNS requests for the ICMP echo requests)?
Could work for devices, but more difficult for Jane.
8.8.8.8 is already anycasted. What if each large ISP (for whatever definition of large floats your boat) setup their own internal instance(s) of 8.8.8.8 with a caching DNS server listening, and handled the traffic without bothering GOOG? For users using 8.8.8.8 as a lighthouse, this would change the meaning of their test...i.e. a response means their connection to their ISP is up, and the ISP's network works at least enough to reach an internal 8.8.8.8, but the question of their connectivity to the rest of the Internet would be unanswered.
Something tells me Google (or Cloudflare, or Quad9, or e.t.c.) would not consider that a good thing, for them :-).
Mark.
Current thread:
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging, (continued)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Tom Beecher (Feb 10)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Mark Tinka (Feb 11)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Tom Beecher (Feb 11)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging james.cutler () consultant com (Feb 11)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Tom Beecher (Feb 11)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging J. Hellenthal via NANOG (Feb 11)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Mark Tinka (Feb 12)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Jon Lewis (Feb 11)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Joe Greco (Feb 11)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Grant Taylor via NANOG (Feb 11)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Mark Tinka (Feb 12)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Mike Hammett (Feb 11)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Mark Tinka (Feb 12)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Christopher Morrow (Feb 09)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe (Feb 09)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Grant Taylor via NANOG (Feb 09)
- RE: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Mike Lewinski via NANOG (Feb 09)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Josh Luthman (Feb 09)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Mike Hammett (Feb 10)
- RE: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Brian Turnbow via NANOG (Feb 09)
- Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging Mark Tinka (Feb 09)