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

[Carlton Samuels]

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>
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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