Dear colleagues, Between about 07:00 and 09:15 UTC today multiple root operators including K-root were receiving an unusually large amount of query packets. This was impacting the overall performance of K-root DNS services, as can be seen for example in DNSMON (with apologies for the unpleasant URL below):
https://atlas.ripe.net/dnsmon/group/k-root?dnsmon.session.color_range_pls=0-30-30-70-100&dnsmon.session.exclude-errors=true&dnsmon.type=server-probes&dnsmon.zone=k-root&dnsmon.startTime=1448835600&dnsmon.endTime=1448877600&dnsmon.ipVersion=both&dnsmon.server=193.0.14.129 After initial investigation, the RIPE NCC took counter-measures during the incident. The results of these measures are partially visible in DNSMON. The full effect of the mitigations implemented roughly coincided with the end of the event. We will investigate the events and the effectiveness of our response further and report about this in the near future. Kind regards, Romeo Zwart
