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AI/Math Puzzle

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48 points markerz | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 19:41 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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albert_e ◴[03 Apr 25 12:52 UTC] No.43568883[source]▶
Haven't read past the problem statement to avoid spoilers.

How difficult can it be to brute force this. (Try all possible domain names within a reasonable length)

Take help from AI while you are at it.

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VladVladikoff ◴[03 Apr 25 12:59 UTC] No.43568957[source]▶
I think you might need api access to a nameserver to take that approach. because if you just throw 100,000,000 dns lookups at your default server they are going to throttle you.
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1. Y_Y ◴[03 Apr 25 13:46 UTC] No.43569573[source]▶
Depending on what you understand by the term "prefix" you can dramatically shrink the search space without doing any thinking.