Re:Smart ovens shouting out to servers in Russia and China
by luckylion on Thursday January 26, 2023 @12:13PM
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There should be official services for that. I'm sure Google (or in Germany, heise.de, which publishes multiple IT-related magazines since forever) sees a lot of that as well. The BBC's home page currently weighs in at around 45kb compressed or 230kb uncompressed. Imagine how much traffic is needlessly generated just by connectivity checks, not to speak of the amount of computing power.
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Re:Smart ovens shouting out to servers in Russia and China
by xxpor on Thursday January 26, 2023 @12:26PM
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A good use case for using HEAD instead of GET
Re:Smart ovens shouting out to servers in Russia and China
by alex_suzuki on Thursday January 26, 2023 @12:29PM
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Ancient wisdom… easily forgotten.
Re:Smart ovens shouting out to servers in Russia and China
by rtkwe on Thursday January 26, 2023 @01:22PM
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There are alternatives like simply pinging the servers or one of the many alternative DNS servers like 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 that are out there.
Re:Smart ovens shouting out to servers in Russia and China
by neurostimulant on Thursday January 26, 2023 @03:53PM
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Some internet connectivity check endpoints I see in my home networks:
- http://detectportal.firefox.com
- http://ping.manjaro.org/check_network_status.txt
- http://connectivitycheck.gstatic.com/generate_204
- http://www.msftconnecttest.com/connecttest.txt
The manjaro one will respond with "NetworkManager is online" when accessed from curl, but redirect to manjaro homepage when accessed from a browser.