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

[Joe Abley]

On 2012-09-10, at 13:07, Peter Koch <pk at DENIC.DE> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:56:08PM -0400, Joe Abley wrote:
> 
>> The AS112 servers don't have such good technical properties, but they have the advantage that they are deployed with an expectation that junk will arrive. Perhaps PRISONER.IANA.ORG is a reasonable thing to ping.
> 
> RFC 6304 does not "mandate" that AS112 name servers respond to ICMP
> Echo requests.

Sure. No RFC mandates that the root servers or Facebook respond to ping, either.

> If "ping" is meant to be at DNS level, then maybe,
> although the expectation might also be that thanks to RFC 6303
> the reason for (and volume of) AS112 traffic would vanish.

I'll not be holding my breath for that.


Joe