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Excessive Netflix DNS Traffic?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eamon Bauman)
Thu Oct 13 13:59:54 2016

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From: Eamon Bauman <eamon@eamonbauman.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 09:26:57 -0500
To: nanog@nanog.org
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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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