[At-Large] [technology taskforce] Ars Technica : A Chrome feature is creating enormous load on global root DNS servers

[James Gannon]

Matts APNIC blog describes exactly what they are for…
And no these are not any kind of attack on the root, the Ars article blows it out of all proportion, OCTO presented on this at some stage earlier in the year and its also mentioned as a non issue in OCTO-008 https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/octo-008-15apr20-en.pdf


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Date: Wednesday, 26 August 2020 at 07:59
To: Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [technology taskforce] [At-Large] Ars Technica : A Chrome feature is creating enormous load on global root DNS servers

Good question Carlton, I asked myself the same questions ...

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El mar., 25 ago. 2020 a las 19:35, Carlton Samuels (<carlton.samuels at gmail.com<mailto:carlton.samuels at gmail.com>>) escribió:
I'm still left with little understanding of why this is important?

What is the use of these lookups for the browser? A previously undisclosed security feature?

And what is being alleged from the name service side? A unintentional DOS-type attack on the root server system itself?

CAS.

On Tue, 25 Aug 2020, 3:39 pm Dev Anand Teelucksingh, <devtee at gmail.com<mailto:devtee at gmail.com>> wrote:

The Chromium browser—open source, upstream parent to both Google Chrome and the new Microsoft Edge—is getting some serious negative attention for a well-intentioned feature that checks to see if a user's ISP is "hijacking" non-existent domain results.

The Intranet Redirect Detector<https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1090985>, which makes spurious queries for random "domains" statistically unlikely to exist, is responsible for roughly half of the total traffic the world's root DNS servers receive. Verisign engineer Matt Thomas wrote a lengthy APNIC blog post<https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/> outlining the problem and defining its scope.
Read rest of Ars Technica article :
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/a-chrome-feature-is-creating-enormous-load-on-global-root-dns-servers/

The APNIC blog post :
https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/

Not aware if this is  mentioned before  in ICANN circles

Dev Anand

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