Event Wrap: DINR 2021 Virtual Workshop
APNIC’s Geoff Huston presented on active vs passive DNS measurements at the DINR 2021 Virtual Workshop, held online from 16 to 17 November 2021.
Tag: measurement
Should you update your Route Flap Damping parameters?
Guest Post: Network operators should regularly check their RFD configurations for harmful vendor defaults.
Adoption of DNS security mechanisms related to ease-of-use, cost
Guest Post: Study shows ease-to-deploy and cost are important factors when it comes to using DNS security mechanisms.
AnyOpt: Predicting and optimizing IP anycast performance
Guest Post: New anycast technique reduces average RTT between clients and anycast servers by 43.4%.
Notes from DINR 2021
Presentations at DINR 2021 demonstrated a world of detail and complexity in current DNS research.
Insights from operating an IP Exchange Provider
Guest Post: Study provides first analysis into the operations of a real-world IP Exchange Provider with a large platform serving customers in 19 economies.
Vulnerabilities show why STARTTLS should be avoided if possible
Guest Post: Study finds more than 40 STARTTLS-related security flaws in many different software products, both client-side and server-side.
RSA vs ECDSA for DNSSEC
Measuring whether we should use ECDSA.
ALPACA attack: Analysing and mitigating cracks in TLS authentication
Guest Post: Study shows adding a TLS-protected email or FTP server to a network can enable cookie-stealing or cross-site scripting attacks against web servers in the same network.
DNS-over-TCP considered vulnerable
Guest Post: There are several ways attackers can force TCP to fragment for inclusion in IP fragmentation attacks.