Development Update #1702
Here are some development highlights from the past two months surrounding continuous testing, modular code and a new tool called dumdumd. [ Read More ]
Development Update #1612
With 2017 approaching here are some DNS-OARC development updates, as previously mentioned these updates will be sent out on a monthly or bi-monthly basis and will contain highlights of the current development work being done at DNS-OARC. [ Read More ]
Check My DNS
Check My DNS is a custom developed DNS nameserver that creates dynamic delegated subdomains to enable clients to query for never-seen-before resource records in order to support a general-purpose framework for testing DNS resolvers.
Read more about it or try it at one of the instances below:
Development Issue #1610
Welcome to the first Development Issue!
The idea of this issue is to provide a summary of the current development work being done at DNS-OARC and will be given out on a monthly or bi-monthly basis ... [ Read More ]
OARC 25 in Dallas
2016 OARC Elections
During the 2016 OARC Annual General Meeting OARC Members will be electing three seats on the OARC Board of Directors. The seats becoming available are doing so on the following basis:
2016 OARC Elections and AGM
The DNS-OARC 2016 Annual General Meeting will take place on the 15th of October at the start of the OARC25 Workshop, in Dallas, Texas, USA.
Mitigating DNS Denial of Service Attacks
The DNS protocol is, unfortunately, an effective Denial-of-Service attack vector for a few reasons:
- DNS generally uses the connectionless User Datagram Protocol (UDP) as its transport.
- Many autonomous systems allow source-spoofed packets to enter their network.
- There is no shortage of Open Resolvers on the Internet.
DNS-OARC facility relocation, 14th-18th May 2016
Please be advised that DNS-OARC will be relocating its equipment and services to a new facility during next week starting this Saturday, May 14th through Wednesday the 18th. There will be multiple sporadic outages during this time affecting ALL services and ALL systems as a result.
RSSAC 002
ICANN's Root Server System Advisory Committee has recently defined two standards, including RSSAC 002 , designed to obtain a baseline of the metrics for the Root Zone, specifically so that root operators can detect and mitigate any abnormalities in the performance of the DNS Root Server System as it continues to grow and develop.