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Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging


From: Lukas Tribus <lukas () ltri eu>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 21:39:33 +0100

Hello,

On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 at 18:56, Mike Hammett <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


Lukas


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