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  2. Distributed denial-of-service attacks on root nameservers

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    However, in practice, the root nameserver infrastructure is highly resilient and distributed, using both the inherent features of DNS (result caching, retries, and multiple servers for the same zone with fallback if one or more fail), and, in recent years, a combination of anycast and load balancer techniques used to implement most of the ...

  3. DDoS attacks on Dyn - Wikipedia

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    As a DNS provider, Dyn provides to end-users the service of mapping an Internet domain name—when, for instance, entered into a web browser—to its corresponding IP address. The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack was accomplished through numerous DNS lookup requests from tens of millions of IP addresses. [ 6 ]

  4. Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    Middle-earth is the setting of much of the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy. The term is equivalent to the Miðgarðr of Norse mythology and Middangeard in Old English works, including Beowulf. Middle-earth is the oecumene (i.e. the human-inhabited world, or the central continent of Earth) in Tolkien's imagined mythological past.

  5. Welcome to Middle-earth. Here's Your Guide to the LOTR ... - AOL

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    Now, with J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday approaching on January 8, it's time for a whole new generation of fans to discover Middle-earth. If you haven’t read the series, how I envy you! Newcomers are ...

  6. IPv6 brokenness and DNS whitelisting - Wikipedia

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    Google, a major provider of services on the Internet, experimented with using a type of DNS allowlisting on a per-ISP basis to prevent this [9] [10] until the World IPv6 Launch. In the DNS allowlisting approach, ISPs are determined from DNS lookup source IP addresses by correlating them with network prefixes derived from routing tables .

  7. DNS over HTTPS - Wikipedia

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    DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is a protocol for performing remote Domain Name System (DNS) resolution via the HTTPS protocol. A goal of the method is to increase user privacy and security by preventing eavesdropping and manipulation of DNS data by man-in-the-middle attacks [1] by using the HTTPS protocol to encrypt the data between the DoH client and the DoH-based DNS resolver. [2]

  8. Decline and fall in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien built a process of decline and fall in Middle-earth into both The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings.. The pattern is expressed in several ways, including the splintering of the light provided by the Creator, Eru Iluvatar, into progressively smaller parts; the fragmentation of languages and peoples, especially the Elves, who are split into many groups; the successive falls ...

  9. Bree (Middle-earth) - Wikipedia

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    The inn was at a road junction in the centre of the village, at the base of the Bree-hill. The Prancing Pony was frequented by Men, Hobbits and Dwarves. Bucklanders from the Shire occasionally travelled to the inn. The art of smoking pipe-weed was said to have begun in Bree, and from The Prancing Pony it spread among the races of Middle-earth ...