Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

[Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>]

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


I'm not sure that an ' authoritative resource ' is really needed. It should
be generally understood at this point in the internet's life that networks
will block / restrict some or all ICMP traffic as they need to.

On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 12:58 PM 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?
>
>
>
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