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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by chx on Saturday September 18, 2021 @08:11PM (#28580523)
When was the last time you read a URL aloud or typed it in?
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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by oneplane on Saturday September 18, 2021 @09:03PM (#28580774)
The last 100 times were in the past few hours, roughly. Are you assuming nobody uses FQDNs or URLs anymore? Better yet, are you assuming only humans use those?
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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by freshpots on Sunday September 19, 2021 @12:04AM (#28581601)
You were both savage and self-deprecating, well done!
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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by paledot on Saturday September 18, 2021 @10:43PM (#28581263)
I dictated the domain for our home automation system to our early-20s cleaner ("dictionaryword dot dictionaryword"), and after a few minutes she asked me "what do you usually Google to get there?".
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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by arthurcolle on Saturday September 18, 2021 @08:26PM (#28580580)
a minute ago? what an outrageous question
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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by fiddlerwoaroof on Saturday September 18, 2021 @08:52PM (#28580731)
I think many people Google “gmail” and click the link instead of memorizing URLs
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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by Firehawke on Saturday September 18, 2021 @09:41PM (#28580962)
Even then you're going to be hitting up DNS to turn "www.gmail.com" into an IP address.
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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by edoceo on Sunday September 19, 2021 @01:43AM (#28581988)
Then an HTTP redirect to mail.google.com
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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by teitoklien on Sunday September 19, 2021 @03:56AM (#28582541)
And maybe to accounts.google.com too , if you’re not signed in
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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by worik on Sunday September 19, 2021 @09:30PM (#28589557)
Today
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