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This page provides information useful for DNS researchers.
Bibliography
These annotated bibliographies review DNS-related research publications for their operational implications.
Tools
The following tools are potentially of interest for DNS researchers.
- dsc - DNS statistics collector and visualizing tool
- dnsstat - application that watches for DNS queries on UDP port 53 and collects accurate query statistics
- dnstop - a libpcap application that displays various tables of DNS traffic on one's network
- fpdns - DNS fingerprinting software
- NeTraMet - a traffic meter that can be used to count DNS related packets on one's network
Related Reading
- How to disable dynamic DNS updates on Microsoft Windows systems (for Windows users)
- entry level DNS information (read briefings # 16, 19, 20)
- V. Ramasubramanian and E. Sirer, Perils of transitive trust in the DNS (presented at IMC2005)
- R. Gieben, DNSSEC in NL (technical report)
- what's new in the Internet DNS security (published in Computer Sweden)
- O. Kolkman, Measuring the resource requirements of DNSSEC (published in RIPE Document Store)
Internet drafts on Domain Name System
- B. Manning and P. Vixie, DISCOVER: Supporting Multicast DNS Queries, November 2005
- S. Woolf and D. Conrad, Requirements for a Mechanism Identifying a Name Server Instance, October 2005
- O. Kolkman and R. Gieben, DNSSEC Operational Practices, October 2005
- J. Abley and K. Lindqvist, Operation of anycast services, January 2006
- M. Andrews, Configuration issues facing full service DNS resolvers in the presence of private network addressing, October 2005
- P. Vixie and A. Kato, DNS Response Size Issues, July 2005
- M. Andrews and S. Weiler, The DNSSEC Lookaside Validation (DLV) DNS resource record, February 2006