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Interesting side effects:

>Now, here's the fun part. @Cloudflare runs a free DNS resolver, 1.1.1.1, and lots of people use it. So Facebook etc. are down... guess what happens? People keep retrying. Software keeps retrying. We get hit by a massive flood of DNS traffic asking for http://facebook.com

https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/1445066136547217413

>Our small non profit also sees a huge spike in DNS traffic. It’s really insane.

https://twitter.com/awlnx/status/1445072441886265355

>This is frontend DNS stats from one of the smaller ISPs I operate. DNS traffic has almost doubled.

https://twitter.com/TheodoreBaschak/status/14450732299707637...

parent r721 5 years ago

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