Re: Incease in latency to TLD servers

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>]

In message <0127E258EE29D3118A0F00609765B44847D0DC () dhcp-gateway sitestream net>
, Karyn Ulriksen writes:
> Sean,
>
>   The seven day map at http://average.miq.net/Weekly/markMM.html shows it
> as even more dramatic.  When I looked at the daily one, I wonder if perhaps
> the demand of all those DNS servers re-querying for Microsoft was the
> cause... but if that was the case, I assume (yuk!) we would have seen it
> yesterday, too.


The word I've heard is that there's a *large* amount of traffic at  
least one root server for assorted Microsoft domains.

No idea what caused the other spikes...


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb