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Re: Incease in latency to TLD servers

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Thu Jan 25 18:22:39 2001

In message <[email protected]et>
, 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