Anders Andersson wrote: > Qualified guess: These might be so-called BitTorrent trackers. > > These tracker URLs are embedded in torrent files that you download. > You can download these torrent files from various sources, not > necessarily (even rarely) from the site itself. When you load these > torrents into a BitTorrent client, the client tries to contact all the > trackers embedded in the file, and will probably try every 5 minutes > or so. Smarter clients would give up or use incremental/exponential > back-off, but there are probably enough dumb clients out there to > compensate.
attached you'll find the top 100 3rd level domain dns stats from the last four weeks. Still a lot of BitTorrent trackers... Olaf
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