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Sites or IPs used to execute wan failover

I was wondering what other people use to execute their WAN failover? In the past, in my firewall, I used www.google.com to determine if failover should occur. After a couple of days, they locked me out and nobody in the company could go to google.com. I guess they thought I was attacking them. It took me forever to figure out the problem.

Will DNS such as 4.2.2.2 lock you out if you ping them every so often?

Thanks
-Dimitry

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zystemsgo

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We use sonicwall as our firewall so it is set to every 5 seconds.

Thanks
-Dimitry

DewFreak

I would back that down a little since you are using someone else's resources. Perhaps you should just ping your ISP's gateway.

jimmyray7

Sonicwall runs their own service for this purpose - responder.global.sonicwall.com

zystemsgo

ASKER

I have a voip system that I would like to failover so I was hoping to find sites that I can test it against for failover.

Thanks
-Dimitry

jimmyray7

Right, use responder.global.sonicwall.com instead of www.google.com. That's what it's there for.

zystemsgo

ASKER

I just wasn't sure if sonicwall checks somehow if the ping is coming from a sonicwall appliance.

Thanks
-Dimitry

jimmyray7

Ah. I see what you mean. I don't think they do, but I've never tested that.