Characterization of Anycast Adoption in the DNS Authoritative Infrastructure

Raffaele Sommese; Gautam Akiwate; Mattijs Jonker; Giovane Moura; Marco Davids; Roland Martijn van Rijswijk - Deij; Geoffrey M. Voelker; Stefan Savage; Kimberley Claffy; Anna Sperotto

Characterization of Anycast Adoption in the DNS Authoritative Infrastructure

Raffaele Sommese
, Gautam Akiwate
, Mattijs Jonker
, Giovane Moura
, Marco Davids
, Roland Martijn van Rijswijk - Deij
, Geoffrey M. Voelker
, Stefan Savage
, Kimberley Claffy
, Anna Sperotto

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Anycast has proven to be an effective mechanism to enhance resilience in the DNS ecosystem and for scaling DNS nameserver capacity, both in authoritative and the recursive resolver infrastructure. Since its adoption for root servers, anycast has mitigated the impact of failures and DDoS attacks on the DNS ecosystem. In this work, we quantify the adoption of anycast to support authoritative domain name service for toplevel and second-level domains (TLDs and SLDs). Comparing two comprehensive anycast census datasets in 2017 and 2021, with DNS measurements captured over the same period, reveals that anycast adoption is increasing, driven by a few large operators. While anycast offers compelling resilience advantage, it also shifts some resilience risk to other aspects of the infrastructure. We discuss these aspects, and how the pervasive use of anycast merits a re-evaluation of how to measure DNS resilience.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	TMA Conference 2021
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 5th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference, Virtual, September 14-15, 2021
Publisher	IFIP
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	978-3-903176-40-9
Publication status	Published - 14 Sept 2021
Event	5th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference, TMA 2021 - Virtual Duration: 14 Sept 2021 → 15 Sept 2021 Conference number: 5

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Conference	5th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference, TMA 2021
Abbreviated title	TMA 2021
City	Virtual
Period	14/09/21 → 15/09/21

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Sommese, R. (Recipient), Akiwate, G. (Recipient), Jonker, M. (Recipient), Moura, G. (Recipient), Davids, M. (Recipient), van Rijswijk - Deij, R. M. (Recipient), Voelker, G. M. (Recipient), Savage, S. (Recipient), Claffy, K. (Recipient) & Sperotto, A. (Recipient), 14 Sept 2021
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Sommese, R., Akiwate, G., Jonker, M., Moura, G., Davids, M., van Rijswijk - Deij, R. M., Voelker, G. M., Savage, S., Claffy, K., & Sperotto, A. (2021). Characterization of Anycast Adoption in the DNS Authoritative Infrastructure. In TMA Conference 2021: Proceedings of the 5th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference, Virtual, September 14-15, 2021 IFIP. https://dl.ifip.org/db/conf/tma/tma2021/tma2021-paper1.pdf

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Characterization of Anycast Adoption in the DNS Authoritative Infrastructure. / Sommese, Raffaele; Akiwate, Gautam; Jonker, Mattijs et al.
TMA Conference 2021: Proceedings of the 5th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference, Virtual, September 14-15, 2021. IFIP, 2021.

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