[dns-wg] Re: More Than 70% of DNS Root Queries Are Junk

On 2025/10/30 17:23, Michael Richardson wrote:

A good reason for more people to do RFC8806 :-) Of course, as people do that, the precentage of junk will go *up* as legitimate traffic stays local. But, OTH, we could scale back the root nameserver infrastructure.

The root nameserver infrastructure is scaled as it is for DDoS defence, not because of current typical traffic levels (junk queries or otherwise). There is also no formal infrastructure in place to support RFC 8806 at scale, nor to generate the signalling to tell any RFC 8806 mirror that a new zone is available. If there was, it would also need signficant DDoS protection. Ray