Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

Lukas Tribus lukas at ltri.eu
Tue Feb 8 20:39:33 UTC 2022


Hello,

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