<div dir="auto">I'm still left with little understanding of why this is important?<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What is the use of these lookups for the browser? A previously undisclosed security feature? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And what is being alleged from the name service side? A unintentional DOS-type attack on the root server system itself? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">CAS.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 25 Aug 2020, 3:39 pm Dev Anand Teelucksingh, <<a href="mailto:devtee@gmail.com">devtee@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p style="max-width:100%;font-family:-apple-system-font;font-size:19px;color:rgb(27,27,27)">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.</p><p style="max-width:100%;font-family:-apple-system-font;font-size:19px;color:rgb(27,27,27)">The <a href="https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1090985" style="text-decoration:none;max-width:100%;font-family:-apple-system-font;color:rgb(65,110,210)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Intranet Redirect Detector</a>, 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 <a href="https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/" style="text-decoration:none;max-width:100%;font-family:-apple-system-font;color:rgb(65,110,210)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">post</a> outlining the problem and defining its scope.</p><p style="max-width:100%;font-family:-apple-system-font;font-size:19px;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-apple-system-font">Read rest of Ars Technica article : </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-apple-system-font"><div style="font-family:-apple-system-font"><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/a-chrome-feature-is-creating-enormous-load-on-global-root-dns-servers/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/a-chrome-feature-is-creating-enormous-load-on-global-root-dns-servers/</a></div><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-apple-system-font">The APNIC blog post : </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-apple-system-font"><div style="font-family:-apple-system-font"><a href="https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/</a></div><div style="font-family:-apple-system-font" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:-apple-system-font" dir="auto">Not aware if this is  mentioned before  in ICANN circles </div><div style="font-family:-apple-system-font" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:-apple-system-font" dir="auto">Dev Anand </div><br></div></p>
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