Adding ZONEMD protections to the root zone
Guest Post: The new record type will add an additional layer of cryptographic security to ensure the reliability of root zone data.
Tag: root servers
Measuring NXDOMAIN responses
Answering difficult questions about NXDOMAIN responses on recursive resolvers.
DNS response manipulation in the wild
Guest Post: Measuring route leak propagation with RIPE Atlas.
The root of the DNS revisited
How can we scale the root zone service to meet the growth of query rates?
Who controls the Internet?
Guest Post: Measuring the diversity of authoritative NS records in gTLDs.
Measuring the practical effect of DNS root server instances: A China-wide case study
Guest Post: Many local root queries in China are turning to instances beyond the international gateway, despite there being 16 closer domestic instances.
More mysterious DNS root query traffic from a large cloud/DNS operator
Guest Post: Learn how the team at Verisign solved the mysterious case of the Google’s prepending nonce labels.
How can we improve the root? Run it locally
Guest Post: Round trip time to root servers depends on efficient routing. Can we be more efficient?
How Chromium reduced Root DNS traffic
Guest Post: Chromium is driving a reduction in DNS root server traffic. Let’s put some numbers to it.
Reduce requests to critical DNS zones with LocalRoot
Guest Post: When an authoritative DNS name server is temporarily unavailable, the ISP cache helps ride out the DNS bumps. Why not pre-cache important information with LocalRoot?