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Re:Belkin Explains Why Its Routers Stopped Working by andyjohnson0 on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @06:00PM (#8429693)
Amazon/Google might be a little annoyed if every Belkin router on the planet started pinging them.
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Re:Belkin Explains Why Its Routers Stopped Working by smsm42 on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @06:40PM (#8429837)
They probably get much more legit traffic than that. Router doesn't need to do it that frequently, only when it needs to find out if internet connection is alive. Which is usually on boot and maybe on infrequent occasions after that. So they wouldn't even notice.
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Re:Belkin Explains Why Its Routers Stopped Working by davidu on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @09:40PM (#8430394)
No. Terrible idea: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/
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Re:Belkin Explains Why Its Routers Stopped Working by darkstar999 on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @06:30PM (#8429793)
They would love it. Why do you think they provide public DNS in the first place?
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Re:Belkin Explains Why Its Routers Stopped Working by vertex-four on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @06:43PM (#8429850)
Google provide public DNS because they think they can make people's DNS faster and more reliable, which causes web pages to load faster and more reliably, causing Internet users to be happier when using the Internet, and therefore providing more analytics data and ad revenue to Google.
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Re:Belkin Explains Why Its Routers Stopped Working by gonzo on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @11:52PM (#8430733)
and, they know where people are looking/surfing/...
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