ICARUS: Beware of flying satellites
Guest Post: How resilient are LEO satellite networks to DDoS attacks?
Tag: measurement
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.
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.