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I personally do through status monitors at larger cloud providers at 30 sec resolutions, never noticed a downtime. They will sometimes drop ICMP though, even th
by supriyo-biswas 1y ago
I personally do through status monitors at larger cloud providers at 30 sec resolutions, never noticed a downtime. They will sometimes drop ICMP though, even though the host is alive and kicking.
- firesteelrain 1y agoSurprised they allow ICMP at all
- naikrovek 1y agowhy does this surprise you? actually, why do people block ICMP? I remember in 1997-1998 there were some Cisco ICMP vulnerabilities and people started blocking ICMP then and mostly never stopped, and I never understood why. ICMP is so valuable for troubleshooting in certain situations.
- firesteelrain 1y agoI don’t disagree. I am used to highly regulated industries where ping is blocked across the WAN
- scrps 1y agoSecurity through obscurity mostly, I don't know who continues to push the advice to block ICMP without a valid technical reason since at best if you tilt your head and squint your eyes you could almost maybe see a (very new) script kiddie being defeated by it. I've rarely actually seen that advice anywhere, more so 20 years ago than now but people are still clearly getting it from circles I don't run in.