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Re:Show HN: Rust Library to check your Internet connectivity by dsl on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @04:44PM (#20034195)
Did you get permission from OpenDNS and Icanhazip? If not, you are effectively launching a distributed attack against them with worthless traffic.

If you don't understand what I mean - just pull the project and do some more research before you release something like this.

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Re:Show HN: Rust Library to check your Internet connectivity by jesusprubio on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @03:22AM (#20037566)
Launching a distributed attack by publishing a crate which makes one request? XD

You can relax, I know how they work. My final year project was about DoS. I would send you the link but it's Spanish.

But I can say you I've written a tool to implement this vector (among others) against VoIP services and it was presented even at the BlackHat conference.

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Re:Show HN: Rust Library to check your Internet connectivity by dsl on Friday May 31, 2019 @09:28PM (#20066547)
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/
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