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		GNOMES on Dec 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DNS over Wikipedia Depending if this became "popular", could overload them with traffic. I presume this is a fun test project though, so I doubt it would cause much harm, but it could be there.

rippercushions on Dec 2, 2022 | [–]

It's hitting the Wikipedia API, which I can assure you is used to seeing a lot worse.

Joker_vD on Dec 2, 2022 | [–]

Overload wikipedia with traffic? As opposed to manually opening a Wikipedia page and copypasting the URL from it?

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