A Chromium feature is responsible for nearly half of the traffic load on root DNS servers by issuing DNS lookups that often propagate up to root nameservers
Google is doing to DNS what D-Link once did to NTP. — The Chromium browser—open source, upstream parent to both Google Chrome … Tweets: @jreuben1 , @dennis_kipker , @glynmoody , @hackerfantastic , @swiftonsecurity , and @jgamblin Tweets: @jreuben1 : A Chrome feature is creating enormous load on global root DNS servers https://arstechnica.com/... Intranet Redirect Detector, which makes spurious queries for random “domains” statistically unlikely to exist, responsible for roughly half of world total DNS traffic to root servers! Dennis-Kenji Kipker / @dennis_kipker : A Chrome feature is creating enormous load on global root DNS servers Google is doing to DNS what D-Link once did to NTP. https://arstechnica.com/... Glyn Moody / @glynmoody : “Hopefully, the issue will soon be resolved—and the world's root DNS servers will no longer need to answer about 60 billion bogus queries every day.” https://twitter.com/... Hacker Fantastic / @hackerfantastic : Ah the infamous GDoS, Google denial-of-service attack :)) https://twitter.com/... @swiftonsecurity : It's truly obnoxious and unreasonable https://twitter.com/... Jerry Gamblin / @jgamblin : Chrome is DDOSing the world's root DNS servers. https://arstechnica.com/...