[dns-operations] Pinging the root name servers to check my connectivity?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 04:50:02PM +0000,
 Paul Vixie <paul at redbarn.org> wrote 
 a message of 12 lines which said:

> health checks should be to ping something you own,

Or something you have an *explicit* right to use, may be because you
paid for it. Actually, it could be a business plan, renting targets
for monitoring. May be someone is already doing it?