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It's been a couple years since I plugged in my Amazon Alexa, but at the time it rocketed three domains to the top of my frequently resolved list: example.com,
by addingnumbers 4y ago
It's been a couple years since I plugged in my Amazon Alexa, but at the time it rocketed three domains to the top of my frequently resolved list: example.com, example.net, and example.org each dwarfed the 4th most frequent request and cumulatively they were more than half my queries.
Sixty times per hour it resolved all three and sent http requests to all three.
I assume it was a simple connectivity check, but using those three domains was worse than redundant, it was gratuitous. They all resolve to the same IP address, same NS record, and connect to the same service on the same server. The only scenario I can conceive of that would cause the second or third test to differ from the first is if the IANA borked one of their registrar records.
Anyway I got the thing to read me a book during LASIK recovery and unplugged it within a week after the third time it piped up out of nowhere. (Nothing like waking up during a deep sleep in a quiet house to a blaring "SORRY, I DIDN'T QUITE CATCH THAT.") Maybe someone who didn't have that problem can let us know if the device is still doing this.
- fulafel 4y agoCurious that example.com et al actually resolve and have IP addresses even though they are IANA reserved domains for documentation, I would have thought they won't result in delivering requests over the network.
- rushikesh98 4y agoA non-working example would be a bad example.
- jwilk 4y agoThe existence of the website is documented in the RFC: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6761#section-6.5 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6761#section-6.5 > All example names are registered in perpetuity to IANA: […] > IANA currently maintains a web server providing a web page explaining the purpose of example domains.
- fulafel 4y agoYep. That RFC also is interesting because the older RFC it supersedes recommended using .example foremost, having the example second-level domains in a more side note status, and that is absent from the newer (2013) RFC.
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- jsmith99 4y agoexample.com is actually useful for manual connectivity checks because it doesn't redirect http to https.
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