As you say "hacks". In both cases those are going to cause a never ending loop hammering on some kind of server that has little to do with the problem, and definitely can not resolve the real problem at hand. I've given up on trying to explain to the OpenWRT community and various others who think they just can hammer on Internet resources how to solve this problem properly. All clients behaving in a restarting way and causing overly large volumes of requests, be that against the TIC server or our DNS servers, will be automatically blocked and ignored. Yep, that is Internet Survival 101. See also our FAQ.