Chromium’s impact on root DNS traffic
https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/ [blog.apnic.net]
2020-08-21 17:06
The root server system is, out of necessity, designed to handle very large amounts of traffic. As we have shown here, under normal operating conditions, half of the traffic originates with a single library function, on a single browser platform, whose sole purpose is to detect DNS interception. Such interception is certainly the exception rather than the norm. In almost any other scenario, this traffic would be indistinguishable from a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
source: HN