On 30 Oct 2025, at 14:49, Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il> wrote:

> https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/more-than-70-of-dns-root-queries-are-junk

The surprising thing to me about this is that anybody thinks this is surprising. Evi Nemeth wrote about this over 20 years ago. Do people imagine that the graph of junk is going down and to the right?

https://www.caida.org/catalog/papers/2001_dnsmeasroot/dmr.pdf


My recollection about this issue is there a handful of studies done thru time.

Duane Wessels in 2003 

Follow-up in 2008

https://www.caida.org/catalog/papers/2008_root_internet/root_internet.pdf

And I’m sure Duane did a refresher on his paper in the past 10 years.

It seems to be going down, but all depends on the methodology. 

Cheers,

Joe
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