DNS configurations and its security analyzing via resource records of the top-level domains

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Title	DNS configurations and its security analyzing via resource records of the top-level domains
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2017
Authors	Wang, M., Zhang, Z., Xu, H.
Conference Name	2017 11th IEEE International Conference on Anti-counterfeiting, Security, and Identification (ASID)
Keywords	Databases, DNS configuration, domain name system, Human Behavior, Internet, IP networks, Named Data Network Security, network servers, NS servers, pubcrawl, Redundancy, resilience, Resiliency, resource record, Scalability, security, security of data, Semiconductor optical amplifiers, Servers, top-level domain, top-level domains
Abstract	Top-level domains play an important role in domain name system. Close attention should be paid to security of top level domains. In this paper, we found many configuration anomalies of top-level domains by analyzing their resource records. We got resource records of top-level domains from root name servers and authoritative servers of top-level domains. By comparing these resource records, we observed the anomalies in top-level domains. For example, there are 8 servers shared by more than one hundred top-level domains; Some TTL fields or SERIAL fields of resource records obtained on each NS servers of the same top-level domain were inconsistent; some authoritative servers of top-level domains were unreachable. Those anomalies may affect the availability of top-level domains. We hope that these anomalies can draw top-level domain administrators' attention to security of top-level domains.
URL	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8285736/
DOI	10.1109/ICASID.2017.8285736
Citation Key	wang_dns_2017

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Science of Security VO