Domain name system security and privacy: A contemporary survey

A Khormali, J Park, H Alasmary, A Anwar, M Saad… - Computer Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most important components of
today's Internet, and is the standard naming convention between human-readable domain …

[HTML][HTML] Addressing the challenges of modern DNS a comprehensive tutorial

O Van Der Toorn, M Müller, S Dickinson… - Computer Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Domain Name System (DNS) plays a crucial role in connecting services and
users on the Internet. Since its first specification, DNS has been extended in numerous …

A high-performance, scalable infrastructure for large-scale active DNS measurements

R van Rijswijk-Deij, M Jonker… - IEEE journal on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The domain name system (DNS) is a core component of the Internet. It performs the vital task
of map** human readable names into machine readable data (such as IP addresses …

Anycast vs. DDoS: Evaluating the November 2015 root DNS event

GCM Moura, RO Schmidt, J Heidemann… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks continue to be a major threat on the Internet
today. DDoS attacks overwhelm target services with requests or other traffic, causing …

Fragmentation considered poisonous, or: One-domain-to-rule-them-all. org

A Herzberg, H Shulman - 2013 IEEE Conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present effective off-path DNS cache poisoning attacks, circumventing widely-deployed
challenge-response defenses, eg, transaction identifier randomisation, port and query …

All your dns records point to us: Understanding the security threats of dangling dns records

D Liu, S Hao, H Wang - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGSAC …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
In a dangling DNS record (Dare), the resources pointed to by the DNS record are invalid, but
the record itself has not yet been purged from DNS. In this paper, we shed light on a largely …

Anycast in context: A tale of two systems

T Koch, E Katz-Bassett, J Heidemann… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Anycast is used to serve content including web pages and DNS, and anycast deployments
are growing. However, prior work examining root DNS suggests anycast deployments incur …

Akamai dns: Providing authoritative answers to the world's queries

K Schomp, O Bhardwaj, E Kurdoglu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We present Akamai DNS, one of the largest authoritative DNS infrastructures in the world,
that supports the Akamai content delivery network (CDN) as well as authoritative DNS …

When the dike breaks: Dissecting DNS defenses during DDoS

GCM Moura, J Heidemann, M Müller… - proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
The Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) is a frequent target of Distributed Denial-of-
Service (DDoS) attacks, but such attacks have had very different outcomes---some attacks …

NDNS: A DNS-like name service for NDN

A Afanasyev, X Jiang, Y Yu, J Tan, Y **a… - 2017 26th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
DNS provides a global-scale distributed lookup service to retrieve data of all types for a
given name, be it IP addresses, service records, or cryptographic keys. This service has …