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#Echo

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I've got a couple of 1st gen Amazon #Alexa #Echo devices performing excessive #DNS lookups again. None of the other Amazon devices in the house exhibit the same behaviour when using #BBCsounds

They're constantly (every 1.5 seconds or so) looking up "as-hls-uk-live.akamaized.net". It's a CNAME whose A records have a TTL of 20s, and appears to be part of the BBC's streaming infrastructure.

This accounts for ~400 lookups every ten minutes against my pihole, ~90% of which receive cached responses.

Darmstädter #Echo heute auf dem Titel (sinngemäß): Verbesserungen für Radfahrer - Dezerneten machen #Radtour, um Problemstellen zu begutachten

Dazu kann ich nur sagen: Sommerloch-PR-Stunt.

Die Probleme für #Radfahrende in #Darmstadt sind hinlänglich bekannt und aktenkundig, vielfach beklagt und durch dutzende Vorschläge fachkundiger u.a. Aktivistys mit Lösungsvorschlägen geradezu überladen.

Es braucht keine Dezernenten-Radtouren in Darmstadt. Es braucht den politschen Willen und das Rückgrat Geld in die Hand zu nehmen und/oder dem heiligen St. Brumm was wegzunehmen.

Interesting, if anyone uses their #Echo devices to answer their ring doorbells do not enable #Alexa+ as it doesn't work with that yet. She'll act like it does but then won't respond. I just disabled early access and functionality hath returned.