[dns-operations] random queries

Wessels, Duane dwessels at verisign.com
Tue Mar 18 01:58:47 UTC 2025



> On Mar 17, 2025, at 11:38 PM, John Kristoff <jtk at dataplane.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 22:52:08 +0700
> Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org> wrote:
> 
>> Could this be Chromium?
>> 
>> https://blog.verisign.com/domain-names/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/
> 
> I don't think so.  For starters, the queries are going to all sorts of
> random IPv4 destination IP addresses that are not operating as
> authoritative servers for any name.
> 
> John


I agree.  Also the chromium query name pattern is limited to [a-z]{7,15} and the examples given here include numbers.

DW

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