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by SlowRobotAhead 1715 days ago
> Software keeps retrying. We get hit by a massive flood of DNS traffic asking for http://facebook.com

If you aren’t using exponential backoff algorithms for your reconnect scheme - you should be!

I have a device in the field, only a few thousand total, but we saw issues when our shared cloud would go down and everyone hammered it to get back up.