Dpinger used to monitor vpn gateway connections - blocked

[gwaitsi]

I have two VPN connections with ExpressVPN.
If the monitor address is set to google, they should with 50% packet loss

from my linux pc, if I use linux traceroute, I get the following results

• I believe this is a UDP traceroute
  traceroute to google.com (172.217.23.174), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
  1  10.x.x.x (10.x.x.x)  35.904 ms  35.882 ms  35.873 ms
  2  hosted-by-i3d.net (31.204.154.1)  35.864 ms  35.853 ms  35.843 ms
  3  100ge.cr0-br3.smartdc.rtm.i3d.net (109.200.218.166)  35.830 ms 100ge.cr1-br3.smartdc.rtm.i3d.net (109.200.218.246)

• I believe this is an ICMP traceroute
  traceroute -I to google.com (172.217.23.174), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
  1  10.x.x.x (10.x.x.x)  26.314 ms  26.318 ms  26.316 ms
  2  * * *
  3  * * *

If i understand this correctly, it seems that hosted-by-i3d.net (31.204.154.1) does not pass ICMP

Are there any other options/way i can monitor the vpn connection to enable failover of the vpn connection.

[luckman212]

Here are some other anycast dns servers you can try for monitors… see if any of them are more reachable/reliable than 8.8.8.8....

Oracle-Dyn
216.146.35.35
216.146.36.36

HurricaneElectric
74.82.42.42

Level3
4.2.2.1
4.2.2.2
4.2.2.3
4.2.2.4
4.2.2.5
4.2.2.6

[virgiliomi]

Just a note to luckman212… Verizon and Level 3 have no affiliation with each other. Those IP addresses you posted belong to Level 3.

Level 3 was recently acquired by CenturyLink, in an effort to increase business/enterprise services. Verizon has nothing to do with them.

[luckman212]

Thanks for the info
I corrected my post…