Posts Tagged ‘Community DNS’

Today is “World IPv6 Day”.  Having integrated IPv6 in the initial design of CommunityDNS‘ initial platform design we understand the value IPv6 brings to users of the Internet.  Not only will this allow for needed expansion, it serves to ensure new applications and new users to the Internet will all have a place at this global digital [...]


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, [...]


What is so secret about the word, “Capacity”? As I read and talk with people I realize the word, “capacity” is typically missing from the DNS discussion. “Capacity” and “Security” are the two cornerstones to maximizing DNS resilience; both of which are typically missing from the DNS discussion. Have you seen a single DNS node [...]


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(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 [...]


Important due to increased traffic from DNSSEC implementation During our work with the DNS Infrastructure Resilience Task Force research yielded 770 different DDoS attacks occurred around the globe on 6 June, 2009.  On average research revealed the probability of 1,300 DDoS attacks happening every day, equaling roughly 3% of the Internet’s daily traffic.  During the [...]


Last September a study was conducted regarding the signing of the L-Root.  The study, “Root Zone Augmentation and Impact Analysis” examined the impact the signing of the root would have on BIND and NSD platforms. NSD 3.2.1 at 5,000 queries per second in a signed zone of 1 million names dropped 22% of UDP traffic. [...]


CommunityDNS looks back at 2009′s achievements and forward to 2010.


Provided by CommunityDNS, the information in this post consists of news items in the security-based Internet community. Eight charged in $9.5m payment processor hack Charged with stealing more than $9 million dollars in 12 hours by hacking into RBS WorldPay, the Atlanta-based bank card processor, 8 men could face over 50 years in prison. In [...]


Provided by CommunityDNS, the information in this post consists of news items in the security-based Internet community. This post contains information regarding security firm chokes sprawling spam botnet, MassMutual warns of data breach, majority of web apps have severe vulnerabilities and no rush to adopt domain names written in Chinese in China.



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