TsuKing: Coordinating DNS Resolvers and Queries into Potent DoS Amplifiers

W Xu, X Li, C Lu, B Liu, H Duan, J Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present a new DNS amplification attack, named TsuKing. Instead of
exploiting individual DNS resolvers independently to achieve an amplification effect …

{ResolverFuzz}: Automated Discovery of {DNS} Resolver Vulnerabilities with {Query-Response} Fuzzing

Q Zhang, X Bai, X Li, H Duan, Q Li, Z Li - 33rd USENIX Security …, 2024 - usenix.org
Domain Name System (DNS) is a critical component of the Internet. DNS resolvers, which
act as the cache between DNS clients and DNS nameservers, are the central piece of the …

Rethinking the Security Threats of Stale {DNS} Glue Records

Y Zhang, B Liu, H Duan, M Zhang, X Li, F Shi… - 33rd USENIX Security …, 2024 - usenix.org
The Domain Name System (DNS) fundamentally relies on glue records to provide
authoritative nameserver IP addresses, enabling essential in-domain delegation. While …

Silence is not Golden: Disrupting the Load Balancing of Authoritative DNS Servers

F Zhang, B Liu, E Alowaisheq, J Chen, C Lu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Authoritative nameservers are delegated to provide the final resource record. Since the
security and robustness of DNS are critical to the general operation of the Internet, domain …

Reachability Analysis of the Domain Name System

D Nevatia, S Liu, D Basin - Proceedings of the ACM on Programming …, 2025 - dl.acm.org
The high complexity of DNS poses unique challenges for ensuring its security and reliability.
Despite continuous advances in DNS testing, monitoring, and verification, protocol-level …

[PDF][PDF] DNSBOMB: A New Practical-and-Powerful Pulsing DoS Attack Exploiting DNS Queries-and-Responses

X Li, D Wu, H Duan, Q Li - 2024 IEEE Symposium on Security and …, 2024 - researchgate.net
DNS employs a variety of mechanisms to guarantee availability, protect security, and
enhance reliability. In this paper, however, we reveal that these inherent beneficial …

POPS: From History to Mitigation of DNS Cache Poisoning Attacks

Y Afek, H Berger, A Bremler-Barr - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.13540, 2025 - arxiv.org
We present a novel yet simple and comprehensive DNS cache POisoning Prevention
System (POPS), designed to integrate as a module in Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) …

Failed Yet Stored: A First Look at DNS Negative Caching

M Zeng, Y Zhu, B Li, Y Zhang, Q Liu… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Caching is a critical method for enhancing the efficiency and the security of the Domain
Name System (DNS). Initially, only successful domain name resolution results were cached …

Performance, privacy, and security issues of TCP/IP at the application layer: A comprehensive survey

T Murkomen - GSC Advanced Research and Reviews, 2024 - gsconlinepress.com
TCP/IP is the backbone of modern network communication, connecting devices across the
world. TCP/IP at its core is a suite of protocols that enables the transmission of data between …

ODNS Clustering: Unveiling Client-side Dependency in Open DNS Infrastructure

W Wu, Z Wang, L Qinxin, Z Li, Y Li, J Yan… - THE WEB CONFERENCE … - openreview.net
There are over a million open DNS servers in the wild. However, not all servers perform
recursive queries directly. Instead, many DNS forwarders forward queries to upstream …