Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

[Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>]

On 2/11/22 22:43, Mike Lewinski via NANOG wrote:

> On a related note, I just discovered a NID that has 1.1.1.1 assigned to the outband interface by default, and it is apparently not 
> user modifiable. So, not only can these devices never use 1.1.1.1 for name resolution, but attempts to determine "is the circuit 
> up" by pinging it will always return bad information. To really pour salt on the wound, this device has no physical outbound 
> interface (likely why the UI doesn't allow changing it).
>
> Bug report filed. I don't really want to use it for either purpose, but hopefully a fix saves someone else the 
> headache. And it really chaps my .... when public addresses get used this way.

Do you know if this was codified prior to 1.1.1.1 being taken over by 
Cloudflare?

Mark.