On 2/8/22 9:45 PM, Mark Tinka via Outages wrote:
That ship long sailed.
So. Many ships have sailed, as in left the dock, but never reached their destination.
If we want to stop this behaviour, we'll have to do something about it,
Yes.
specifically, offering an alternative to Internet users that is regarded as official, e.g., like we do with other public services such as NTP.
That's /one/ option. Another option is for Google, et al., to simply drop ICMP packets to their DNS servers. Is this heavy handed? Probably. Is it a viable option to persuade people to not ping said DNS servers? yes. Will it achieve the desired result of having people stop pinging Google's DNS servers? Quite likely. Admittedly with a long tail. -- Grant. . . . unix || die