Responsibilities of the DNS: “Oh YES you will!”, “Oh NO you will not!”

09May11

What is the responsibility of the DNS? Should the DNS be responsible for policing traffic across its infrastructure? Should the blocking and blacklisting of names or throttling of query packets be the responsibility of the DNS? From experience I know my opening paragraph has started passionate debates in more than one section of this globe. [...]

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Tags: Anycast, CDNS, CommunityDNS, Cyber defense, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, DDoS, Denial of Service Attack, Distributed Denial of Services, DNS, DNS Resilience, DNSSec, DoS, IPv6, ISP, Organized Cybercrime, Security

2010 Year in Review

11Jan11

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, [...]

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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

“Platform Capacity” – the fourth dimension providing resilience

01Jun10

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 [...]

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CommunityDNS Completes Study on DNS Resilience

15Apr10

Chosen by the DNS Infrastructure Resilience Task Force (DIR), CommunityDNS is pleased to finalize its part in the European Commission’s study regarding DNS resilience for the EU and its Member States.  Officially titled, “Initiative for the Development and Coordination of Technologies and Methodologies for Resilience of the DNS Infrastructure in and among European Union Member [...]

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Tags: Capacity, CDNS, CommunityDNS, Cyber security, DDoS, DIR, DNS, DNS Infrastructure Resilience Task Force, DNS Resilience, DNSSec, DoS, E-commerce, EU Commission, Information-Sharing, Internet Resilience, Resilience