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Firefox generating huge traffic in one minutes

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rakoh87741
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As we have observed on domain - "prod.detectportal.prod.cloudops.mozgcp.net" generating 1.5 crores of request on port 53(DNS) and action is redirect here i wanted to know the services why these traffic generating within one minutes, what will the reason? what will be the counter measure?

As we have observed on domain - "prod.detectportal.prod.cloudops.mozgcp.net" generating 1.5 crores of request on port 53(DNS) and action is redirect here i wanted to know the services why these traffic generating within one minutes, what will the reason? what will be the counter measure?

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Sanaaarao
Sanaaarao

You’re likely seeing high DNS traffic because of a misconfigured setting or a problematic extension. Try disabling extensions and checking your DNS settings. Also, monitor for any unusual network activity.

cor-el
cor-el
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Mozilla rents server storage on Google Cloud servers (mozgcp.net). This specific URL seems to be about the captive portal detection.

This is about network detection done by Firefox on startup and later at regular intervals to see whether it can reach detectportal.firefox.com. See Network Detection: