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HTTP hijacking is much more common than DNS. The reason for this is that hosts cache DNS results, so clients that just joined your network wouldn't get the redirect at all.

And yes, they probably should block excessive DNS traffic, but this is technically sophisticated to implement (now you're getting all stateful to determine what's excessive) and generally unnecessary.



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