G root servers unreachable via ICMP(v6)

Tue May 16 18:00:10 UTC 2023

On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 4:37 AM <borg at uu3.net> wrote:
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> So, DoD does NOT have capacity to answer those little ICMP echo
> request packets? Heh.. Anyway, this is IMO terrible practice.

why?

> Cutting PING means you are hurting your basic troubleshooting.
> Is that thing even plugged in? Maybe Firewall misconfiguration?

it means you need to use the tool (dig, host, nslookup) that talks to
the service being offered.
ping is basically meaningless as a test for 'is the service working'
on a dns server.