Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

Thu Feb 10 01:35:20 UTC 2022

Mark,

> On 9 Feb 2022, at 16:02, Mark Tinka <mark at tinka.africa> wrote:
> On 2/9/22 16:53, Łukasz Bromirski wrote:
>> Yup. And Google folks accounted for the world pinging them all day long.
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>> I wouldn't call using DNS resolvers as best "am I connected to internet over this interface" tool though. A day, year or 5 years from now the same team may decide to drop/filter and then thousands of hardcoded "handmade automation solutions" will break. And I believe that's closer to what Masataka was trying to convey.
> I get that, but what I'm saying is that users tend to expect things to remain the same. […] If it can serve some other purpose (like liveliness detection), they will use it for that purpose in the hopes that it will always be there, for that purpose.

…aaaaaaand I absolutely agree with you on all of the points.

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