Matts APNIC blog describes exactly what they are for… 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 https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/octo-008-15apr20-en.pdf From: ttf <ttf-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org> on behalf of Sergio Salinas Porto <presidencia@internauta.org.ar> Date: Wednesday, 26 August 2020 at 07:59 To: Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels@gmail.com> Cc: 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> Subject: Re: [technology taskforce] [At-Large] Ars Technica : A Chrome feature is creating enormous load on global root DNS servers Good question Carlton, I asked myself the same questions ... Sergio Salinas Porto Presidente Internauta Argentina - LACRALO/ICANN<https://atlarge.icann.org/ralos/lacralo> Asociación Argentina de Usuarios de Internet<http://www.internauta.org.ar/>/FeTIA<http://www.fetia.org.ar/> FUILAC- Federación de Usuarios de Internet de LAC<https://fuilac.org> facebook: salinasporto<http://www.facebook.com/salinasporto> twitter: sergiosalinas<http://twitter.com/sergiosalinas> Mobi:+54 9 223 5 215819 "Ojalá podamos ser desobedientes, cada vez que recibimos órdenes que humillan nuestra conciencia o violan nuestro sentido común" Eduardo Galeano El mar., 25 ago. 2020 a las 19:35, Carlton Samuels (<carlton.samuels@gmail.com<mailto:carlton.samuels@gmail.com>>) escribió: 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<mailto: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<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-enormou... 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 _______________________________________________ ttf mailing list ttf@atlarge-lists.icann.org<mailto:ttf@atlarge-lists.icann.org> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ttf _______________________________________________ By submitting your personal data, you consent to the processing of your personal data for purposes of subscribing to this mailing list accordance with the ICANN Privacy Policy (https://www.icann.org/privacy/policy) and the website Terms of Service (https://www.icann.org/privacy/tos). You can visit the Mailman link above to change your membership status or configuration, including unsubscribing, setting digest-style delivery or disabling delivery altogether (e.g., for a vacation), and so on. _______________________________________________ At-Large mailing list At-Large@atlarge-lists.icann.org<mailto:At-Large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/at-large At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org _______________________________________________ By submitting your personal data, you consent to the processing of your personal data for purposes of subscribing to this mailing list accordance with the ICANN Privacy Policy (https://www.icann.org/privacy/policy) and the website Terms of Service (https://www.icann.org/privacy/tos). You can visit the Mailman link above to change your membership status or configuration, including unsubscribing, setting digest-style delivery or disabling delivery altogether (e.g., for a vacation), and so on.