[wlug] Chrome/Chromium Now Accounting For Half Of All DNS Root Server Traffic

Google’s Chrome (and its Chromium-based offshoots) include some elaborate workarounds to detect ISPs hijacking “no such domain” responses to advertise their own DNS services. Unfortunately, these workarounds lead to the generation of a lot of traffic to the DNS root servers <https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/21/chromiums_dns_network/>. Firefox is able to implement something similar, but with less impact on the Internet at large.