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2010 Year in Review
2010 was a busy year for the Internet in general and was a wonderfully busy year for CommunityDNS. As 2011 begins we can’t help but reflect on the various milestones reached within the CommunityDNS family. Along with the Internet’s two major developments, being DNSSEC and IDNs, other items of note for 2010 include DNS Resilience, [...]
Filed under: Anycast, BIND, Capacity, CDNS, Community DNS, CommunityDNS, DDoS, Denial of Service Attacks, Distributed Denial of Services, DNS Resilience, DNS Resolution, DNSSec, DoS, IDN, IPv4, IPv6, Security | Leave a Comment
Tags: Anycast, BIND, Capacity, CDNS, Community DNS, CommunityDNS, DDoS, Denial of Service Attacks, Distributed Denial of Service, DNS, DNS Resilience, DNS Resolution, DNSSec, DoS, IDN, Internationalized Domain Names, IPv6, Security
Yesterday CommunityDNS noticed a sudden, heavy spike in traffic through its Anycast node in Hong Kong. While comfortably processing queries at 863,000 queries per second for close to 2 hours the occurrence was undeniable. While we can’t say the increase in traffic was specifically due to DDoS, its sudden increase is suspicious and reminds us [...]
Filed under: BIND, CDNS, Community DNS, CommunityDNS, Cybersecurity, DDoS, Denial of Service Attacks, Distributed Denial of Services, DNS, DNS Infrastructure Resilience Task Force, DNS Made Easy, DNS Resilience, DoS, EU Commission, Security, UltraDNS | Leave a Comment
Tags: CDNS, CommunityDNS, Cyber security, DDoS, DNS, DNS Made Easy, DoS, Register.com, Security, UltraDNS
(click image to enlarge) Capacity and scalability are necessary in managing DNSSEC and D/DoS. Capacity, necessary for maintaining operations during D/DoS attacks, is also necessary for increased traffic due to DNSSEC deployment. Scalability is highly important, as DNSSEC is deployed not only will greater traffic levels will be encountered, greater demand will be placed on [...]
Filed under: Anycast, BIND, Capacity, CDNS, Community DNS, CommunityDNS, DDoS, Denial of Service Attacks, Distributed Denial of Services, DNS, DNS Resilience, DNSSec, DoS, NSD, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Tags: BIND, CDNS, Community DNS, CommunityDNS, DDoS, DNS, DNSSec, DoS, NSD
