[33972] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Incease in latency to TLD servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu Jan 25 18:21:07 2001
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Karyn Ulriksen <kulriksen@publichost.com>
Cc: "'Sean Donelan'" <sean@donelan.com>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:19:00 -0500
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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
