Call for Nominees - 2010 OARC Board of Directors

Now that we have venue and accommodations confirmed for our Fall Workshop in Denver, our attention switches to the AGM and the elections for the Board of Directors. DNS-OARC has two seats on the board which are up for election this year. We are looking for nominations for candidates willing to serve a two-year term on the Board and contribute to the continued growth of OARC. The Board meets monthly, by teleconference, to review DNS-OARC operations.

Presentations and Notes from the 2nd Global Annual Symposium on DNS Security, Stability and Resiliency

On Monday, February 1, 2010, DNS-OARC organized a few presentations at the start of the 2nd Global Annual Symposium on DNS Security, Stability and Resiliency

Presentations and Notes

13:15: Introduction to DNS-OARC Roy Arends / DNS-OARC
 
13:25: Investigating anomalous DNS traffic: A proposal for an address reputation system Sebastian Castro / .NZ Registry Services
Q&A Willingness of operators to cooperate?

L-Root now serving "DURZ" signed responses

In case you haven't heard, L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET began serving a DNSSEC-signed root zone today. DNS-OARC has been collecting data during the signed root rollout. The graph below shows how L-root's priming response size has increased during the last hour since it first began serving signed responses:

We're also watching the data below to see if there are noticeable increases in priming query rates after signing:

DITL 2009 Data: Query rates to TLDs with wildcards

Last week someone asked me if the DITL 2009 data could shed any light on the amount of queries sent to TLDs with wildcards. While we do have data from a few TLD operators, it wouldn't really help to answer this question. However, I think we can get a "first-order approximation" by looking at the queries to root nameservers. Note that by looking at queries to the roots, we have no knowledge of client queries that are cache hits and those that are sent to the TLD nameservers due to cached referrals.

Signed Root Zone Rollout and Schedule Announced

Here at the RIPE 59 meeting in Lisbon, Joe Abley from ICANN and Matt Larson from VeriSign announced a plan and schedule for signing the Root Zone. A number of interesting tidbits:
  1. The root zone will technically be signed by December 1, 2009 although ICANN and VeriSign will keep it to themselves for internal testing.
  2. Between January and July 2010, the root servers will begin serving the signed zone one "letter" (server) at a time.
  3. Also during this rollout period, actual DNSSEC keys will be replaced with "dummy" keys so that validation CANNOT occur.
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