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Slightly related but I noticed something interesting back when the Tor project released the Snowflake proxy. I was provisioning VPS with Snowflake and due to so

Slightly related but I noticed something interesting back when the Tor project released the Snowflake proxy. I was provisioning VPS with Snowflake and due to some trial and error I had to re-provision a few times. One of the times I checked the web server logs and saw HTTP requests for theguardian.com. I just kept provisioning so the IP is long lost but it only took 3 attempts to get this IP from the cloud provider. I still can't really explain it because the guardian is not hosted at that cloud provider, but maybe it was a test environment? Also kinda scary that active requests were coming in.

mschuster91 2y ago
Cosmic rays [1], and no this is not a joke. Alternatively, there have been instances where routers and switches had bit-flip errors that ended up corrupting packets that passed through them. Or DNS caches that cached DNS responses for far longer than the specified TTL values - these are a real PITA for modern loadbalancers and are probably what caused your misdirected requests. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2944445 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2944445