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 …

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 …

Internet anycast: performance, problems, & potential

Z Li, D Levin, N Spring, B Bhattacharjee - … of the 2018 Conference of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Internet anycast depends on inter-domain routing to direct clients to their" closest" sites.
Using data collected from a root DNS server for over a year (400M+ queries/day from 100+ …

Anycast latency: How many sites are enough?

R de Oliveira Schmidt, J Heidemann… - Passive and Active …, 2017 - Springer
Anycast is widely used today to provide important services such as DNS and Content
Delivery Networks (CDNs). An anycast service uses multiple sites to provide high …

Measuring query latency of top level DNS servers

J Liang, J Jiang, H Duan, K Li, J Wu - … 2013, Hong Kong, China, March 18 …, 2013 - Springer
We surveyed the latency of upper DNS hierarchy from 19593 vantage points around the
world to investigate the impact of uneven distribution of top level DNS servers on end-user …

Traffic centralization and digital sovereignty: an analysis under the lens of DNS servers

DFF Boeira, EJ Scheid, MF Franco… - NOMS 2024-2024 …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Domain Name System (DNS) service is one of the pillars of the Internet. This service
allows users to access websites on the Internet through easy-to-remember domain names …

The Roots Go Deep: Measuring'.'Under Change

F Steurer, D Wagner, D Lachos, A Feldmann… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In this study, we measure all root servers over a period of 174 days from 675 vantage points
in 523 networks and 62 countries using IPv4 and IPv6. Using this data, we first investigate …

[HTML][HTML] An elastic and resiliency defense against DDoS attacks on the critical DNS authoritative infrastructure

Z Wang - Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
The critical DNS authoritative infrastructure is increasingly targeted by DDoS attacks in
recent years. This paper proposes a novel mitigating solution to DDoS attacks on DNS …

Hadoop framework: impact of data organization on performance

YS Tan, J Tan, ES Chng, BS Lee, J Li… - Software: Practice …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Hadoop, based on the popular MapReduce framework, is an open‐source distributed
computing framework that has been gaining much popularity and usage. It aims to allow …

The Role of Network Centralization in Shaping Digital Sovereignty: An Analysis Under the DNS Lens

AC Azevedo, EJ Scheid, MF Franco… - … Journal of Network …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Centralization of Internet‐based services in a few key players has been a topic of study in
recent years. One of such services, the domain name system (DNS), is one of the pillars of …