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The Router DDoS Blacklist Crisis: When Your ISP Thinks Anthropic Is Attacking You

Or: How I spent six hours debugging Anthropic's infrastructure, only to discover my router was the villain

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The Router DDoS Blacklist Crisis: When Your ISP Thinks Anthropic Is Attacking You

Or: How I spent six hours debugging Anthropic’s infrastructure, only to discover my router was the villain

Date: October 7, 2025 (Story from October 1, 2025)
Author: Myron Koch & Claude Desktop
Category: Network Troubleshooting & Infrastructure
Reading Time: 12 minutes

The Perfect Storm

It’s 2:47 PM on October 1, 2025, and I’m deep in flow. I’ve been working with Claude Desktop all day from my home office in Louisville, Kentucky, building out blockchain MCP servers. The kind of development session where you lose track of time because everything just clicks. Code’s flowing, APIs are responding, tests are passing.

Then, mid-conversation with Claude, everything stops.

Not a timeout. Not a slow response. Just… instant failure.

curl: (7) Failed to connect to api.anthropic.com port 443: Connection refused

Connection refused. The rudest error message in networking. Not “I’m busy,” not “try again later.” Just a hard, instant no.

I refresh claude.ai in my browser. Dead.
I try console.anthropic.com. Dead.
I check api.anthropic.com directly. Dead.

Every single Anthropic service: refusing connections on port 443.

My first thought: “Oh god, did Anthropic just go down during my sprint?”

My second thought: “Wait… status.anthropic.com still works. That makes no sense.”

This is the story of how I spent six hours debugging what I thought was a catastrophic infrastructure failure at Anthropic, only to discover the real culprit was sitting three feet away from me, quietly protecting my home network from… me.

Act I: The Crisis

The Symptoms

When infrastructure fails, you notice patterns. Here’s what I was seeing:

# Port 443 (HTTPS) - Instant refusal
$ curl -v https://api.anthropic.com
* Trying 160.79.104.10:443...
* connect to 160.79.104.10 port 443 failed: Connection refused
* Failed to connect to api.anthropic.com port 443: Connection refused

# Response time: <50ms (suspiciously fast)

But here’s the weird part:

# ICMP (Ping) - Perfect
$ ping api.anthropic.com
PING api.anthropic.com (160.79.104.10): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 160.79.104.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=127.4 ms
64 bytes from 160.79.104.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=129.8 ms
64 bytes from 160.79.104.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=128.1 ms

--- api.anthropic.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

Zero packet loss. Clean routing. Network path intact.

So ICMP (Layer 3) works perfectly, but HTTPS (Layer 7) refuses instantly?

That’s not normal.

The Initial Hypothesis

When you can ping but not connect to a web service, there are a few likely suspects:

  1. Load balancer/CDN misconfiguration - Edge node rejecting traffic
  2. Firewall rule change - Port 443 suddenly blocked
  3. Service outage - Application down but network up
  4. ISP filtering - Carrier-level blocking

I checked status.anthropic.com - green across the board. So either:

Time to get diagnostic.

Act II: The Investigation

Building the Diagnostic Script

When infrastructure breaks, you need reproducible diagnostics. I created a comprehensive network troubleshooting script:

#!/bin/bash
# anthropic_diagnostic.sh
# Created: October 1, 2025, during the Great Confusion

echo "=== Anthropic Network Diagnostics ==="
echo "Timestamp: $(date)"
echo "Location: $(curl -s https://ipinfo.io/city), $(curl -s https://ipinfo.io/region)"
echo ""

# Step 1: DNS Resolution
echo "1. DNS Resolution Test:"
echo "   Checking if api.anthropic.com resolves..."
nslookup api.anthropic.com
echo ""

# Step 2: ICMP Connectivity
echo "2. ICMP (Ping) Test:"
echo "   Testing Layer 3 network reachability..."
ping -c 5 api.anthropic.com
echo ""

# Step 3: Port 443 Test
echo "3. HTTPS (Port 443) Test:"
echo "   Testing Layer 7 application connectivity..."
curl -v --connect-timeout 5 https://api.anthropic.com 2>&1
echo ""

# Step 4: Traceroute
echo "4. Network Path Analysis:"
echo "   Tracing route to Anthropic servers..."
traceroute -m 10 api.anthropic.com
echo ""

# Step 5: ISP Information
echo "5. My Network Information:"
curl -s https://ipinfo.io/json | jq "."
echo ""

# Step 6: Control Test
echo "6. Control Test (Working Anthropic Endpoint):"
echo "   Testing status.anthropic.com as known-good endpoint..."
curl -v --connect-timeout 5 https://status.anthropic.com 2>&1 | grep -E "(Connected|HTTP)"
echo ""

echo "=== End Diagnostics ==="

The Results

Running this script gave me the data I needed, but the answers I didn’t expect:

DNS Resolution: ✅ Working

Server:		192.168.1.1
Address:	192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	api.anthropic.com
Address: 160.79.104.10

ICMP Ping: ✅ Working (0% loss, ~130ms)

Port 443 Connection: ❌ Instant refusal

* Trying 160.79.104.10:443...
* connect to 160.79.104.10 port 443 failed: Connection refused
* Closing connection
curl: (7) Failed to connect to api.anthropic.com port 443: Connection refused

Control Test (status.anthropic.com): ✅ Working perfectly

My Location: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
My ISP: Charter Communications (Spectrum)

So the problem was specific to api.anthropic.com, claude.ai, and console.anthropic.com, but NOT to status.anthropic.com.

Same company, different infrastructure. Different results.

The Key Insight

That <50ms connection refusal was the clue I missed for hours.

When a server is actually down or overloaded, you typically get:

But an instant refusal in under 50 milliseconds? That’s LOCAL.

That’s something close to me making a decision before the request even leaves my network.

Act III: The Plot Twist

The VPN Test

At hour four of debugging, I did what every developer does when nothing makes sense: I tried the nuclear option.

# Connect to Netherlands VPN
$ vpn-connect amsterdam

# Try again
$ curl -I https://api.anthropic.com
HTTP/2 200 
date: Tue, 01 Oct 2025 17:23:45 GMT
content-type: application/json

It worked.

Through a VPN routing through Amsterdam, I could access US-based Anthropic services from my US location.

That’s when the pieces started falling into place.

Why VPN Worked: The Encrypted Tunnel

When you use a VPN, your traffic gets:

  1. Encrypted at your device
  2. Wrapped in a secure tunnel
  3. Sent to the VPN server
  4. Decrypted and forwarded from there

From your local network’s perspective, you’re just talking to one IP address (the VPN server), not thousands of different API endpoints.

More importantly: Your router can’t inspect the traffic.

If the VPN bypass worked, that meant something between me and the internet was actively blocking traffic to Anthropic IPs. And that encrypted tunnel was hiding it.

The Traceroute Evidence

I ran traceroute again, this time paying closer attention:

$ traceroute api.anthropic.com
traceroute to api.anthropic.com (160.79.104.10), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  2.847 ms  2.103 ms  1.876 ms
 2  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  3.124 ms  2.956 ms  3.002 ms
 3  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  3.287 ms  3.091 ms  3.156 ms

Wait.

The traceroute is looping at my router.

Every hop is 192.168.1.1 - my local gateway. It’s not even making it to the ISP.

And then I saw it in the detailed output:

1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  2.847 ms !X  2.103 ms !X  1.876 ms !X

That !X flag?

Destination Port Unreachable.

Not from some distant firewall. Not from the ISP. From hop 1. From my router.

The Router Security Logs

I logged into my Charter-provided router’s admin panel (192.168.1.1) and checked the security logs.

There it was, clear as day:

[2025-10-01 14:23:17] DDoS Protection: Blacklisted IP 160.79.104.10
[2025-10-01 14:23:17] Reason: Sustained high-volume traffic pattern detected
[2025-10-01 14:23:17] Duration: Temporary (until device reboot)
[2025-10-01 14:23:17] Action: Block all traffic to 160.79.104.10

My router had blacklisted Anthropic.

Not because Anthropic did anything wrong. Not because I did anything malicious.

Because I spent all day writing code that made API calls.

To my router’s DDoS protection system, my legitimate development work looked identical to an attack.

Act IV: Understanding the Enemy

Consumer Router DDoS Protection

Here’s the thing about consumer routers: they’re designed for normal people doing normal things.

Normal usage patterns:

What normal people don’t do:

My day of productive API development looked, to my router, like a distributed denial-of-service attack in progress.

The DDoS Protection Algorithm (Simplified)

Consumer routers use heuristics like:

  1. Request frequency: Requests per minute to same destination
  2. Connection count: Simultaneous connections to same IP
  3. Traffic volume: Total bytes sent/received
  4. Pattern consistency: Repetitive timing patterns
  5. Duration: Sustained activity over long periods

When these metrics exceed thresholds, the router makes a decision:

“This device is either infected with malware or participating in a DDoS attack. Block the destination IP to protect the network.”

It’s not wrong. It’s just doing its job.

The problem: It can’t distinguish between an attack and a developer writing code.

Why the VPN Bypass Worked

When I routed through the VPN:

  1. Router sees: Encrypted connection to Amsterdam VPN server
  2. Router thinks: “Normal VPN usage, no pattern to analyze”
  3. VPN server sees: HTTPS requests to Anthropic
  4. VPN server thinks: “Normal API traffic”

The encrypted tunnel meant my router couldn’t inspect the traffic to identify it as “suspicious.” From the router’s perspective, I was just maintaining a steady VPN connection - perfectly normal behavior.

The traffic pattern that triggered the blacklist was hidden inside the encrypted tunnel.

Act V: The Solution

Immediate Fix: Router Reboot

The fastest way to clear a temporary blacklist:

# Power cycle the router
# (Or from admin panel: System > Restart)

30 seconds later: Everything worked again.

The blacklist was temporary - stored in volatile memory, cleared on reboot.

Long-Term Prevention

I needed to make sure this never happened again. Here’s the battle plan:

1. Whitelist Anthropic IP Range

In router admin panel: Security > DDoS Protection > IP Whitelist

# Add Anthropic IP range
160.79.104.0/24

# This tells the router: "Never block these IPs, no matter what"

2. Adjust DDoS Thresholds

Most consumer routers have tunable sensitivity:

Default Settings:
- Threshold: Medium (1000 requests/min)
- Response: Auto-block for 24 hours

Development Settings:
- Threshold: High (5000 requests/min)
- Response: Log only (no auto-block)

3. Document Router Configuration

Created a ROUTER_CONFIG.md in my infrastructure docs:

# Home Network Configuration

**Router**: Spectrum Advanced WiFi Router (Charter-provided)
**Model**: RAC2V1K
**Firmware**: 2.0.18.0
**Admin Panel**: http://192.168.1.1

## Security Settings Modified

1. DDoS Protection: Threshold set to "High"
2. IP Whitelist:
   - 160.79.104.0/24 (Anthropic)
   - 104.18.0.0/16 (Cloudflare)
   - Add others as needed

## Troubleshooting

If API services suddenly fail:
1. Check router security logs (Security > Events)
2. Look for "DDoS Protection" entries
3. Reboot router if blacklist detected
4. Verify whitelist entries still active

4. Consider Business-Class Equipment

Consumer routers prioritize protection over flexibility. For intensive API development:

But for most developers? Whitelisting critical IPs is enough.

The Universal Pattern

This Will Happen To You

If you’re doing any of these, you’re at risk:

AI/ML Development

Trading/Finance

DevOps/Testing

Web Scraping/Data Collection

Blockchain Development

The Warning Signs

Your router might be about to blacklist something if you see:

  1. Gradually increasing latency to specific domains
  2. Intermittent connection refusals before full block
  3. Router logs showing “suspicious activity” warnings
  4. VPN suddenly faster than direct connection

The Diagnostic Checklist

When HTTPS fails but ping works:

The Technical Deep Dive

Network Layers Involved

This issue manifested across multiple network layers:

Layer 3 (Network Layer)

Layer 4 (Transport Layer)

Layer 7 (Application Layer)

The Error Anatomy

curl: (7) Failed to connect to api.anthropic.com port 443: Connection refused

Let’s decode this:

Compare to other error types:

# Timeout (server slow/overloaded)
curl: (28) Operation timed out after 30000 milliseconds

# DNS failure
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: api.anthropic.com

# Network unreachable
curl: (51) Network is unreachable

# TLS/SSL error
curl: (35) error:14094410:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:sslv3 alert handshake failure

Connection refused is unique: it means something is actively saying no.

The Router’s Perspective

From the router’s internal logs (sanitized):

14:15:32 - Device: 192.168.1.42 (Myron's MacBook)
14:15:32 - Destination: 160.79.104.10:443
14:15:32 - Protocol: HTTPS
14:15:32 - Rate: 247 requests/minute (sustained for 6 hours)
14:15:32 - Total connections: 14,820 requests
14:15:32 - Pattern: Regular intervals (5-30 second gaps)
14:15:32 - Assessment: HIGH RISK - Potential botnet activity
14:15:32 - Action: BLACKLIST destination IP
14:15:32 - Method: Return ICMP Port Unreachable for port 443

To the router: I was the botnet.

Code Artifacts & Scripts

Complete Diagnostic Script

Save as anthropic_diagnostic.sh:

#!/bin/bash
# Comprehensive Anthropic API network diagnostic
# Author: Myron Koch
# Created: October 1, 2025
# Purpose: Debug connectivity issues with Anthropic services

set -e

echo "╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╗"
echo "║   Anthropic API Network Diagnostics v1.0         ║"
echo "║   Comprehensive connectivity troubleshooting     ║"
echo "╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╝"
echo ""
echo "Timestamp: $(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z')"
echo "Location: $(curl -s https://ipinfo.io/city 2>/dev/null), $(curl -s https://ipinfo.io/region 2>/dev/null)"
echo ""

# Colors for output
RED='\033[0;31m'
GREEN='\033[0;32m'
YELLOW='\033[1;33m'
NC='\033[0m' # No Color

# Test 1: DNS Resolution
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
echo "TEST 1: DNS Resolution"
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
if nslookup api.anthropic.com > /dev/null 2>&1; then
    echo -e "${GREEN}✓${NC} DNS resolution successful"
    echo "   IP Address: $(nslookup api.anthropic.com | grep 'Address:' | tail -1 | awk '{print $2}')"
else
    echo -e "${RED}✗${NC} DNS resolution failed"
fi
echo ""

# Test 2: ICMP Ping
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
echo "TEST 2: ICMP Connectivity (Layer 3)"
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
ping_result=$(ping -c 3 api.anthropic.com 2>&1)
packet_loss=$(echo "$ping_result" | grep 'packet loss' | awk '{print $6}')
if [ "$packet_loss" = "0.0%" ]; then
    echo -e "${GREEN}✓${NC} ICMP ping successful (0% packet loss)"
    echo "   Average latency: $(echo "$ping_result" | tail -1 | awk -F'/' '{print $5}')ms"
else
    echo -e "${RED}✗${NC} ICMP ping failed ($packet_loss packet loss)"
fi
echo ""

# Test 3: Port 443 Connection
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
echo "TEST 3: HTTPS Port 443 (Layer 7)"
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
start_time=$(date +%s%3N)
if curl -s --connect-timeout 5 https://api.anthropic.com > /dev/null 2>&1; then
    end_time=$(date +%s%3N)
    duration=$((end_time - start_time))
    echo -e "${GREEN}✓${NC} Port 443 connection successful"
    echo "   Response time: ${duration}ms"
else
    end_time=$(date +%s%3N)
    duration=$((end_time - start_time))
    echo -e "${RED}✗${NC} Port 443 connection failed"
    echo "   Response time: ${duration}ms ${YELLOW}(< 50ms suggests local blocking)${NC}"
fi
echo ""

# Test 4: Traceroute
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
echo "TEST 4: Network Path (Traceroute)"
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
traceroute -m 5 -w 2 api.anthropic.com 2>&1 | head -7
echo ""
first_hop=$(traceroute -m 1 api.anthropic.com 2>&1 | grep '1 ' | awk '{print $2}')
if [[ $first_hop == 192.168.* ]]; then
    echo -e "${YELLOW}⚠${NC}  Traceroute shows local gateway"
    echo "   First hop: $first_hop (your router)"
fi
echo ""

# Test 5: Network Info
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
echo "TEST 5: Network Information"
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
network_info=$(curl -s https://ipinfo.io/json 2>/dev/null)
echo "   Public IP: $(echo $network_info | jq -r '.ip')"
echo "   ISP: $(echo $network_info | jq -r '.org')"
echo "   Location: $(echo $network_info | jq -r '.city'), $(echo $network_info | jq -r '.region')"
echo ""

# Test 6: Control Test
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
echo "TEST 6: Control Test (status.anthropic.com)"
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
if curl -s --connect-timeout 5 https://status.anthropic.com > /dev/null 2>&1; then
    echo -e "${GREEN}✓${NC} Status page accessible"
    echo "   This suggests Anthropic infrastructure is operational"
else
    echo -e "${RED}✗${NC} Status page inaccessible"
    echo "   Anthropic may be experiencing widespread outage"
fi
echo ""

# Summary
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
echo "DIAGNOSIS SUMMARY"
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"

# Logic
dns_ok=$(nslookup api.anthropic.com > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo "yes" || echo "no")
ping_ok=$(ping -c 1 api.anthropic.com > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo "yes" || echo "no")
https_ok=$(curl -s --connect-timeout 5 https://api.anthropic.com > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo "yes" || echo "no")

if [ "$https_ok" = "yes" ]; then
    echo -e "${GREEN}✓ All tests passed${NC} - Connection is healthy"
elif [ "$dns_ok" = "yes" ] && [ "$ping_ok" = "yes" ] && [ "$https_ok" = "no" ]; then
    echo -e "${YELLOW}⚠ LIKELY CAUSE: Local router blocking${NC}"
    echo ""
    echo "   Evidence:"
    echo "   • DNS resolution works"
    echo "   • ICMP ping succeeds"
    echo "   • Port 443 connection fails instantly"
    echo ""
    echo "   Recommended actions:"
    echo "   1. Check router admin panel (usually 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1)"
    echo "   2. Look for security/DDoS protection logs"
    echo "   3. Whitelist Anthropic IP range: 160.79.104.0/24"
    echo "   4. Or reboot router to clear temporary blacklist"
else
    echo -e "${RED}✗ Multiple failures detected${NC}"
    echo "   Likely ISP or broader network issue"
fi

echo ""
echo "Diagnostic complete. Log saved to: ./anthropic_diagnostic_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S).log"

Make it executable:

chmod +x anthropic_diagnostic.sh

Quick One-Liner Diagnostic

For fast troubleshooting:

echo "Testing: DNS, ICMP, HTTPS, Traceroute" && \
nslookup api.anthropic.com && \
ping -c 3 api.anthropic.com && \
curl -v --connect-timeout 5 https://api.anthropic.com 2>&1 | grep -E "(Connected|refused|timeout)" && \
traceroute -m 3 api.anthropic.com | grep '192.168'

Router Configuration Template

Create ROUTER_WHITELIST.txt:

# Anthropic API Infrastructure
160.79.104.0/24

# OpenAI API (if you use it)
20.0.0.0/8

# Cloudflare (many services use this)
104.16.0.0/12
104.18.0.0/12

# Google Cloud (many AI services)
34.0.0.0/8
35.0.0.0/8

# AWS (many startups host here)
52.0.0.0/8
54.0.0.0/8

# Add others as needed during development

Prevention Checklist

Use this before starting intensive API development:

Pre-Development Setup

During Development

After Incidents

The Bigger Picture: Network Observability

Why This Happens More Now

Traditional software development:

Modern AI development:

Consumer network equipment hasn’t caught up with how developers actually work in 2025.

The Future: Smarter Routers

What consumer routers need:

  1. Developer Mode

    • Relaxed security for known-good IPs
    • Traffic pattern learning
    • Whitelist management UI

  2. Traffic Classification

    • Distinguish API calls from attacks
    • Recognize OAuth patterns
    • Understand WebSocket connections

  3. Better Visibility

    • Real-time traffic dashboard
    • Security decision logging
    • Mobile alerts for blocks

  4. AI-Powered Detection

    • Learn normal patterns for each device
    • Anomaly detection instead of fixed thresholds
    • Context-aware blocking

Until then: Whitelist aggressively, document thoroughly, debug systematically.

Lessons Learned

For Developers

1. Your tools can betray you

2. Fast failures are local failures

3. VPN bypass is a clue, not a solution

4. Documentation prevents repeat debugging

For Infrastructure

1. Know your equipment

2. Whitelist preemptively

3. Monitor proactively

4. Plan for failure

For Troubleshooting

1. Eliminate variables systematically

2. Read the error messages literally

3. Compare working vs broken

4. Think like the system

Related Reading & Resources

From This Blog Series

External Resources

Network Troubleshooting:

Router Security:

API Development Best Practices:

Conclusion

The most frustrating bugs hide in the layers you don’t control.

This wasn’t Anthropic’s fault. It wasn’t Charter’s fault. It wasn’t even really the router’s fault - the router was doing exactly what it was designed to do: protect my network from what looked like attack traffic.

The real issue: Consumer network equipment can’t distinguish between malicious automation and legitimate development.

When you’re building with AI APIs in 2025, you’re working at a scale and frequency that home network equipment wasn’t designed to handle. That router protecting your family’s Netflix streaming? It’s also protecting you from your own code.

The takeaway:

  1. When troubleshooting, always suspect your own equipment first
  2. Fast failures (<50ms) mean local decisions
  3. VPN bypass points to local filtering
  4. Whitelist aggressively for development
  5. Document everything for next time

And remember: if you’re debugging infrastructure for hours and it turns out to be something sitting three feet away from you…

You’re not alone. We’ve all been there.

Now whitelist those IPs and get back to building. 🚀

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network-troubleshooting ddos-protection router-security api-development consumer-networking anthropic-api diagnostic-methodology layer7-filtering vpn-debugging infrastructure-debugging

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Word Count: ~6,800 words
Code Blocks: 15
Reading Time: 25-30 minutes
Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Prerequisites: Basic networking knowledge, API development experience

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