On 9/10/2012 7:57 PM, Phil Regnauld wrote: > Paul Vixie (paul) writes: >> more importantly, as112 announcements are variably scoped. pinging such >> an address does not tell you how healthy you are. you might be reaching >> something on-lan, on-campus, same-provider, other-provider. if the >> purpose is to check your connectivity then you should ping something >> whose network location you know is distant enough to matter. > How is that different from ping the increasingly ubiquitious L and > F-root ? > (both seem like a bad idea either way)
as i said up-thread, anyone who wants reliable connectivity testing should be contracting for the specific remote service they will connect to when doing their health check. paul -- "I suspect I'm not known as a font of optimism." (VJS, 2012) _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
