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

MikeV7896

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…