[121902] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Default route with object tracking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Maurand)
Mon Feb 1 10:45:29 2010
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:47:07 -0500
From: Curtis Maurand <cmaurand@xyonet.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20100201153102.GB4623@dan.olp.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I'd rather send him to something more open like kernel.org; anything
but Google's DNS. Google's DNS is a little too nefarious for my taste.
On 2/1/2010 10:31 AM, Dan White wrote:
> On 01/02/10 10:13 -0500, Andrey Gordon wrote:
>> Hi list.
>>
>> I'd like to setup my default routes to the Interwebz to be
>> conditional on
>> reachability of something on the Interwebz. I got two different ISPs (no
>> BGP). I'm trying to figure out what would be a reliable object to track?
>> Meaning, it's probably not reasonable to track my ISPs default gateway,
>> since it does not protect me from someone on the ISP side screwing
>> up. I'm
>> thinking of tracking something like google.com, but am not sure if
>> after I
>> resolve google.com for the first time, it will be simply tracking an
>> arbitrary server (or some load balancer).
>>
>> I wanted to see what experienced folks think is a reliable tracking
>> target.
>> Any comments are much appreciated.
>
> Publicly advertised DNS server IPs should be good, such as google's
> 8.8.8.8
> and 8.8.4.4.
>
