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The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most fundamental components of the Internet. While glue is widely used and heavily relied on in DNS operations, there is little thinking about the necessity, complexity, and venerability of such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-05 Zheng Wang

The current Domain Name System (DNS), as a core infrastructure of the internet, exhibits several shortcomings: its centralized architecture leads to censorship risks and single points of failure, making domain name resolution vulnerable to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Guang Yang

The Domain Name System (DNS) is central to all Internet user activity, resolving accessed domain names into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. As a result, curious DNS resolvers can learn everything about Internet users' interests. Public…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Philip Sjösvärd , Hongyu Jin , Panos Papadimitratos

Over the past decade, Internet centralization and its implications for both people and the resilience of the Internet has become a topic of active debate. While the networking community informally agrees on the definition of centralization,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Gautam Akiwate , Kimberly Ruth , Rumaisa Habib , Zakir Durumeric

Domain Name System (DNS) is a critical component of the Internet. DNS resolvers, which act as the cache between DNS clients and DNS nameservers, are the central piece of the DNS infrastructure, essential to the scalability of DNS. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Qifan Zhang , Xuesong Bai , Xiang Li , Haixin Duan , Qi Li , Zhou Li

The different level of interest in deploying the new Internet address space across network operators has kept IPv6 tardy in its deployment. However, since the last block of IPv4 addresses has been assigned, Internet communities took the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Juhoon Kim , Nadi Sarrar , Anja Feldmann

The Domain Name System (DNS) plays a critical role in the functioning of the Internet. It provides a hierarchical name space for locating resources. Data is typically stored in plain text files, possibly spanning gigabytes. Frequent parsing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Jeroen Koekkoek , Daniel Lemire

The Domain Name System (DNS) provides a translation between readable domain names and IP addresses. The DNS is a key infrastructure component of the Internet and a prime target for a variety of attacks. One of the most significant threat to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Harel Berger , Amit Z. Dvir , Moti Geva

Despite the Internet's continued growth, it increasingly depends on a small set of service providers to support Domain Name System (DNS) and web content hosting. This trend poses many potential threats including susceptibility to outages,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Synthia Wang , Kyle MacMillan , Brennan Schaffner , Nick Feamster , Marshini Chetty

The Internet's TCP/IP architecture was designed for resilient packet delivery between hosts identified by IP addresses. Over time, however, the consolidation of applications and services into large-scale platforms built on that universal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Geoff Huston , Lixia Zhang

Today, Internet offers many critical applications. So, it becomes very crucial for Internet service providers to ensure traceability of operations and to secure data exchange. Since all these communications are based on the use of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-01 Kaouthar Chetioui , Ghizlane Orhanou , Said El Hajji , Abdelmajid Lakbabi

We perform a passive measurement study investigating how a Protective DNS service might perform in a Research & Education Network serving hundreds of member institutions. Utilizing freely-available DNS blocklists consisting of domain names…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-30 David Plonka , Branden Palacio , Debbie Perouli

The Internet has many backbone components on top of which the whole world is connected. It is important to make these components, like Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Domain Name System (DNS), and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), secure and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Faizan Safdar Ali , Alptekin Kupcu

The domain name system (DNS) is an important protocol in today's Internet operation, and is the standard naming convention between domain names, names that are easy to read, understand, and remember by humans, to IP address of Internet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Ah Reum Kang , Jeffrey Spaulding , Aziz Mohaisen

Over the past three decades, since its invention, the Internet has evolved in both its sheer volume and usage. The Internet's core protocol, Internet Protocol (IP), has proven its usability and effectiveness to support a communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Shuoshuo Chen , Fabrice Mizero

The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most crucial parts of the Internet. Although the original standard defined the usage of DNS over UDP (DoUDP) as well as DNS over TCP (DoTCP), UDP has become the predominant protocol used in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Mike Kosek , Trinh Viet Doan , Simon Huber , Vaibhav Bajpai

Internet censorship continues to impact billions of people worldwide, and measurement of it remains an important focus of research. However, most Internet censorship measurements have focused solely on the IPv4 Internet infrastructure. Yet,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jack Wampler , Hammas Bin Tanveer , Rishab Nithyanand , Eric Wustrow

The study utilizes a comprehensive dataset informed by IPv6 routing information to provide statistics, degree distribution, joint degree distribution, and clustering analysis of the IPv6 Internet's structure and resilience.The dataset…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Bin Yuan , Tianbo Song

The fragmented nature and asymmetry of local and remote file access and network access, combined with the current lack of robust authenticity and privacy, hamstrings the current internet. The collection of disjoint and often ad-hoc…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-10-29 Paul Gardner-Stephen

With the growing realization that current Internet protocols are reaching the limits of their senescence, a number of on-going research efforts aim to design potential next-generation Internet architectures. Although they vary in maturity…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-08-08 Paolo Gasti , Gene Tsudik , Ersin Uzun , Lixia Zhang