Comment 7 for bug 1680167

The problem is this check is not ci-specific. It's a connectivity validation during deployment, and we can't change it to ping an arbitrary address like git.openstack.org because some people will be deploying in isolated environments where they don't have direct access to the outside world. Not to mention that adding a hard dependency on an external resource like that would be less than ideal.

I wonder if it would work better to reduce the wait time of the ping but add more attempts. I'll try a patch and we can recheck it a bunch of times to see if it hits this bug.