ZDNS: a fast DNS toolkit for internet measurement

L Izhikevich, G Akiwate, B Berger… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Active DNS measurement is fundamental to understanding and improving the DNS
ecosystem. However, the absence of an extensible, high-performance, and easy-to-use …

TsuNAME: exploiting misconfiguration and vulnerability to DDoS DNS

GCM Moura, S Castro, J Heidemann… - Proceedings of the 21st …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
TheInternet's Domain Name System (DNS) is a part of every web request and e-mail
exchange, so DNS failures can be catastrophic, taking out major websites and services. This …

[PDF][PDF] Ghost domain reloaded: Vulnerable links in domain name delegation and revocation

X Li, B Liu, X Bai, M Zhang, Q Zhang, Z Li… - Annual Network and …, 2023 - par.nsf.gov
In this paper, we propose PHOENIX DOMAIN, a general and novel attack that allows
adversaries to maintain the revoked malicious domain continuously resolvable at scale …

Investigating the impact of DDoS attacks on DNS infrastructure

R Sommese, KC Claffy, R van Rijswijk-Deij… - proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks both abuse and target core Internet infrastructures and
services, including the Domain Name System (DNS). To characterize recent DDoS attacks …

How ready is dns for an ipv6-only world?

F Streibelt, P Sattler, F Lichtblau, CH Ganán… - … Conference on Passive …, 2023 - Springer
DNS is one of the core building blocks of the Internet. In this paper, we investigate DNS
resolution in a strict IPv6-only scenario and find that a substantial fraction of zones cannot be …

Cross the Zone: Toward a Covert Domain Hijacking via Shared {DNS} Infrastructure

Y Zhang, M Zhang, B Liu, Z Liu, J Zhang… - 33rd USENIX Security …, 2024 - usenix.org
Domain Name System (DNS) establishes clear responsibility boundaries among
nameservers for managing DNS records via authoritative delegation. However, the rise of …

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 …

Retroactive identification of targeted DNS infrastructure hijacking

G Akiwate, R Sommese, M Jonker… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
In 2019, the US Department of Homeland Security issued an emergency warning about
DNS infrastructure tampering. This alert, in response to a series of attacks against foreign …

A comprehensive, longitudinal study of government DNS deployment at global scale

R Houser, S Hao, C Cotton… - 2022 52nd Annual IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Within the Domain Name System (DNS), government domains form a particularly valuable
part of the names-pace, representing trusted sources of information, vital services, and …

Characterization of anycast adoption in the DNS authoritative infrastructure

R Sommese, G Akiwate, M Jonker, GC Moura… - … Conference (TMA'21), 2021 - par.nsf.gov
Anycast has proven to be an effective mechanism to enhance resilience in the DNS
ecosystem and for scaling DNS nameserver capacity, both in authoritative and the recursive …