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

Dev Anand Teelucksingh devtee at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 20:39:16 UTC 2020


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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