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I just ping a .com nameserver. For me, these are the most important servers for the www. More important than Google's. Never thought to use a "random website

• 3xblah 8y ago
  Although at some point you might find yourself behind a captive portal where port 53 is being redirected. In that case, you could ping a recursive nameserver on the open internet that listens on a non-standard port.