DNS ROOT understanding

[Simon Hobson]

Ladislav Vobr wrote:

>  > There is no point in doing this. So don't. Even if you did, what are
>>  you going to do if you found a problem? [Which is highly unlikely.]
>>  Who are you going to call? And would they pay any attention to you?
>
>it might be very simple way of saying you have a world connectivity
>problems, I was doing it as well, maybe I am still doing it, I have to
>check :-)

I would suggest that if you are going to run a continuous ping 
against something to detect connectivity failure, you should not go 
any further than your own ISP (and depending on your contract/AUP you 
may need their permission to do that). Pinging anything further away 
(on a regular basis) is very antisocial.

Simon

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