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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Matts APNIC blog describes exactly what they are for…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">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 </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/octo-008-15apr20-en.pdf">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/octo-008-15apr20-en.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">ttf <ttf-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org> on behalf of Sergio Salinas Porto <presidencia@internauta.org.ar><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, 26 August 2020 at 07:59<br>
<b>To: </b>Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels@gmail.com><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Technical issues <technical-issues@atlarge-lists.icann.org>, At-Large Worldwide <at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org>, Technology Taskforce WG <ttf@atlarge-lists.icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [technology taskforce] [At-Large] Ars Technica : A Chrome feature is creating enormous load on global root DNS servers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Good question Carlton, I asked myself the same questions ...<br clear="all">
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<pre><b><span style="color:#222222">Sergio Salinas Porto </span></b><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><b><span style="color:#222222">Presidente Internauta Argentina - <a href="https://atlarge.icann.org/ralos/lacralo" target="_blank">LACRALO/ICANN</a></span></b><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><b><span style="color:#222222"><a href="http://www.internauta.org.ar/" target="_blank">Asociación Argentina de Usuarios de Internet</a>/<a href="http://www.fetia.org.ar/" target="_blank">FeTIA</a></span></b><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><b><span style="color:#222222">FUILAC- <a href="https://fuilac.org" target="_blank">Federación de Usuarios de Internet de LAC</a></span></b><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><b><span style="color:#222222">facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/salinasporto" target="_blank">salinasporto</a> </span></b><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><b><span style="color:#222222">twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/sergiosalinas" target="_blank">sergiosalinas</a></span></b><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><b><span style="color:#222222">Mobi:+54 9 223 5 215819</span></b><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><b><span style="color:#222222">"Ojalá podamos ser desobedientes, cada vez que recibimos órdenes que humillan nuestra </span></b><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><b><span style="color:#222222"> conciencia o violan nuestro sentido común" Eduardo Galeano</span></b><o:p></o:p></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal">El mar., 25 ago. 2020 a las 19:35, Carlton Samuels (<<a href="mailto:carlton.samuels@gmail.com">carlton.samuels@gmail.com</a>>) escribió:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm still left with little understanding of why this is important?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What is the use of these lookups for the browser? A previously undisclosed security feature? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And what is being alleged from the name service side? A unintentional DOS-type attack on the root server system itself? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">CAS.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, 25 Aug 2020, 3:39 pm Dev Anand Teelucksingh, <<a href="mailto:devtee@gmail.com" target="_blank">devtee@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="max-width:100%"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif;color:#1B1B1B">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="max-width:100%"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif;color:#1B1B1B">The <a href="https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1090985" target="_blank"><span style="color:#416ED2;text-decoration:none">Intranet
Redirect Detector</span></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/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#416ED2;text-decoration:none">post</span></a> outlining the problem and defining its scope.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif"><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/a-chrome-feature-is-creating-enormous-load-on-global-root-dns-servers/" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/a-chrome-feature-is-creating-enormous-load-on-global-root-dns-servers/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">The APNIC blog post : <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif"><a href="https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/" target="_blank">https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">Not aware if this is mentioned before in ICANN circles <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">Dev Anand <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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