On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM Matthew Petach via NANOG < [email protected]> wrote:
> Having been bitten by this in the past...never base your determination of > "healthy" or "working" on a single external data reference. > It can be tempting to just assume 8.8.8.8 will always be "up" and > "pingable" to verify your internet connectivity is good...right up to the > point where Google has a routing snafu ... No need for a routing snafu... 8.8.8.8 is current getting a steady-state 27Mpps (million packets/second) of ICMP ECHO_REQUEST. Internet connectivity checking is not a service we offer, and there is no SLA for it, therefore it may go away at any time. There is a very real risk of me running an April 1st experiment of "what would happen if I just ACL off all the pings?". I might have guessed I'd light up a couple dozen pagers and start a nanog@ flamewar... but if anyone is basing routing decisions on that, it will be a "fun" day indeed! Damian -- Damian Menscher :: Security Reliability Engineer :: Google :: AS15169 _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6R7Q5QNKZMIMPYHCON4APAVIMGD7IF32/
