piranna/Jolly-Roger — comment on commit e2ad698d51ad29a267231f1171d0a2492c90b71a
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By jlbelmonte:

Sorry about my lateness, I have no excuses.
Now we are hosted in EC2 and some times there are issues with ICMP traffic in EC2 and by default is filtered you can try it with meneame.net, instagr.am that are also in Amazon Web Services.

That is why it pings google, if you don't get a response from google or there is no connection or the doom day is here :)