as someone said, icmp is an unreliable test because ping requests get dropped by busy servers or network devices.
consider using something like this as a test of a resolver: /usr/bin/time -f '%e' dig +short +noanswer +time=5 cnn.com @8.8.8.8 _______________________________________________ Outages mailing list Outages@outages.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages
