Sergio Salinas Porto Presidente Internauta Argentina - LACRALO/ICANN Asociación Argentina de Usuarios de Internet/FeTIA FUILAC- Federación de Usuarios de Internet de LAC facebook: salinasporto twitter: sergiosalinas Mobi:+54 9 223 5 215819 "Ojalá podamos ser desobedientes, cada vez que recibimos órdenes que humillan nuestraconciencia o violan nuestro sentido común" Eduardo Galeano
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@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, 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 outlining the problem and defining its scope.
Read rest of Ars Technica article :The APNIC blog post :_______________________________________________Not aware if this is mentioned before in ICANN circlesDev Anand
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