Chrome is to blame for about 50% of all DNS requests to root servers. The requests originate from Chrome’s mechanism to detect environments with catch-all DNS resolvers.
Tag: DNS
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AWS hit by major DDoS attack
DDoS is an annoyance not even the biggest Cloud is safe from. Apparently AWS’s Route 53 was affected and failed to resolve multiple DNS names over several hours.
Distributed of Denial Service Parts of AWS were taken offline for hours
Source: TechRadar. The newspage also has a reference of 2019’s best DDoS Protection.
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Specification of DNS over Dedicated QUIC Connections
While a lot of people debate DNS-over-https (and it’s dependencies), IETF has a specification for DNS-over-QUIC on it’s standards track.
This document describes the use of QUIC to provide transport privacy for DNS. The encryption provided by QUIC has similar properties to that provided by TLS, while QUIC transport eliminates the head-of-line blocking issues inherent with TCP and provides more efficient error corrections than UDP. DNS over QUIC (DNS/QUIC) has privacy properties similar to DNS over TLS specified in RFC7858, and performance similar to classic DNS over UDP.
Source: Specification of DNS over Dedicated QUIC Connections