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Today the web was broken by countless hacked devices – your 60-second summary

Doctor Syntax Silver badge

"DNS resolution is needed for a lot more than just the URL you typed into the browser or clicked in Google. Each of the secondary domains that site calls have to be resolved too, and there can be dozens of them on a fairly typical site on the internet."

To say nothing of the tertiary and quaternary domains. OTOH if this forced sites to serve all their own crap this could be seen as a useful by-product

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