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>> GTalk was deprecated almost a decade ago. And yet they still run the XMPP servers, though not in a way that's usable as chat. They used the same XMPP serve
by wffurr 5y ago
>> GTalk was deprecated almost a decade ago.
And yet they still run the XMPP servers, though not in a way that's usable as chat. They used the same XMPP servers as GTalk for Cloud Print, for some reason. And now if they turn those servers off, a whole lot of printers with faulty back off logic will start trying to DDoS the data centers.
Cheapest thing to do is apparently to just keep running the servers.
- tech234a 5y agoHadn’t considered the DDOS issue before… but why can’t they just make the XMPP server nxdomain instead so there’s nothing to DDOS?
- easrng 5y agoCloud Print is dead. Another thing that used/uses GTalk's XMPP servers is push notifications.
- wffurr 5y agoYes, but all those Cloud Print enabled printers are still out there hammering the IPs.