Internet Science Consortium (ISC)

Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) is a not-for-profit corporation internationally known for their long-term operational experience and leadership in DNS activities. ISC operates the F root name server that anycasts to more than 70 locations worldwide. ISC is the founding member of the DNS Operations and Analysis Research Center (OARC) that brings together key operators, implementers, and researchers to search for solutions to DNS problems.

Collaboration with ISC gives CAIDA access to operationally relevant data collected at the very top of the Internet hierarchy. ISC also has a subcontract from CAIDA to build a testbed and to perform experiments characterizing DNSSEC performance.

• Statement of Work
• F-root statistics (7 days delayed)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech) is one of the oldest and most respected polytechnical universities in the United States. In collaboration with CAIDA, Prof. George Riley (Computer Engineering) and his students conduct laboratory simulations of DNS anycasting methods. The goal of these experiments is to estimate the effectiveness and robustness of using anycast for DNS root servers.

• Statement of work
• BGP-anycast simulations

Measurement Factory

Measurement Factory is a software company offering quality tools for performance testing and protocol compliance. Under a subcontract with CAIDA, Duane Wessels developed a system for collecting and exploring statistics from busy DNS servers - DNS Statistics Collector software. He also conducts surveys, studying properties of DNS resolvers in the real Internet, and laboratory modeling experiments, testing DNS properties in depth.

• DNS surveys

University of Auckland, New Zealand

University of Auckland is New Zealand's largest university internationally known for its learning and academic excellence and research leadership. We collaborate with Prof. Nevil Brownlee (Department of Computer Science) who developed a Network Traffic Flow Measurement Tool NeTraMet. We use this tool to monitor performance of the root and gTLD servers.

• DNS monitoring with NeTraMet