[dns-operations] sudden influx of com. IN A queries to the roots

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:02:01AM +0200,
 Stefan Schmidt <zaphodb at zaphods.net> wrote 
 a message of 29 lines which said:

> a sudden influx of roughly 40kqps since around 16-17:00 UTC that
> looks to be mostly for IN A [2] returning NOERROR [3] and directed
> to .com or below [4].

And having RD=1 which is unusual.

http://k.root-servers.org/statistics/ROOT/recursion.html