Cloudflare Radar

Re:Cloudflare Radar by remram on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @12:11PM (#24640287)

How is this data collected? I can see how they would be able to get statistics from clients hitting CloudFlare servers, but how can they report on the traffic hitting google.com or microsoft.com?

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Re:Cloudflare Radar by pingiun on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @12:17PM (#24640376)

I think that might just be based on their public dns service (https://1.1.1.1)

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Re:Cloudflare Radar by remram on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @12:26PM (#24640486)

They can tell bots and DoS traffic from the DNS request?

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Re:Cloudflare Radar by ta8964586 on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @12:45PM (#24640717)

I'm guessing the different metrics are collected through different means. Their blog mentions HTTP request to sites that use cloudflare as well as DNS [0]. It would make sense that domain popularity is meaused through DNS and bots and DOS measured by the systems built for handling those things.

[0]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-radar/

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