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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by baptou12 on Friday February 15, 2019 @09:10AM (#19171000)
Other IOT manufacturers who hardcode the DNS into devices do not own the DNS servers, do they ?
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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by loeg on Friday February 15, 2019 @12:30PM (#19172815)
That would be worse, not better. E.g., IoT devices hardcoding NTP servers they don't pay for:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTP_server_misuse_and_abuse#No...

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