Bibliography

These annotated bibliographies review DNS-related research publications for their operational implications.

• CAIDA bibliography
• OARC bibliography

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)
• archive of dnsop mailing list
• CAIDA DNS Open Resolver Survey

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