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Re: Excessive Netflix DNS Traffic?


From: Dave Temkin <dave () temk in>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 16:05:14 +0000 (UTC)

We (Netflix) are investigating this now.
-Dave






On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 12:44 PM -0500, "Velocity Lists" <volists () staff velocityonline net> wrote:










We have seen it as well.
In our cases it is all TCP DNS traffic as well.

Velocity Online
850-205-4638

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Eamon Bauman 
wrote:

We're rate limiting it now, but it's definitely bad behavior. When I open
the flood gates, over a 5-min sample from a single host I received well
over 61,000 queries.
The size of the records being requested cause this to be an (unintended)
amplification attack, as a 30Mbps inbound sum is getting amplified to
150-200Mbps outbound.

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 7:52 PM, Josh Reynolds 
wrote:

Same here :)

On Oct 13, 2016 1:09 PM, "Ryan, Spencer"  wrote:

I was going to point you to the reddit thread about it, but it looks to
be your thread :)


Spencer Ryan | Senior Systems Administrator | sryan () arbor net >> sryan () arbor net>
Arbor Networks
+1.734.794.5033 (d) | +1.734.846.2053 (m)
www.arbornetworks.com


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From: NANOG  on behalf of Eamon Bauman <
eamon () eamonbauman com>
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2016 10:26:57 AM
To: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Excessive Netflix DNS Traffic?

Hi all,

Is anyone seeing excessive DNS traffic from game consoles (Xbox One,
PS4)
running Netflix? Starting 9/29 we have been seeing significant volume of
DNS traffic from game consoles on our campus to our caching recursive
boxes. Logs show repeated requests for api-global.netflix.com and
nrdp.nccp.netflix.com.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Eamon









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