Incease in latency to TLD servers

Thu Jan 25 23:19:00 UTC 2001

In message <0127E258EE29D3118A0F00609765B44847D0DC at 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