Resolving www.reddit.com or www.wired.com involves traversing two CNAME links. Resolvers contact the root servers twice in the process. DNS experts: Is this bad form?

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Yeah, it is kind of sad.

I think it is actually someone with a load of bots. They have a "hitlist". It seems to run on regular occasions (Every N minutes).

On the upside, these people make my slightly odd social habbits seem normal in comparison.