The Internet of Names: A DNS Big Dataset - Actively Measuring 50% of the Entire DNS Name Space, Every Day

Roland M. van Rijswijk; Mattijs Jonker; Anna Sperotto; Aiko Pras

doi:10.1145/2785956.2789996

The Internet of Names: A DNS Big Dataset - Actively Measuring 50% of the Entire DNS Name Space, Every Day

Roland M. van Rijswijk, Mattijs Jonker, Anna Sperotto, Aiko Pras

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Abstract

The Domain Name System (DNS) is part of the core infrastructure of the Internet. Tracking changes in the DNS over time provides valuable information about the evolution of the Internet’s infrastructure. Until now, only one large-scale approach to perform these kinds of measurements existed, passive DNS (pDNS). While pDNS is useful for applications like tracing security incidents, it does not provide sufficient information to reliably track DNS changes over time. We use a complementary approach based on active measurements, which provides a unique, comprehensive dataset on the evolution of DNS over time. Our high-performance infrastructure performs Internet-scale active measurements, currently querying over 50% of the DNS name space on a daily basis. Our infrastructure is designed from the ground up to enable big data analysis approaches on, e.g., a Hadoop cluster. With this novel approach we aim for a quantum leap in DNS-based measurement and analysis of the Internet.

Original language	Undefined
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication, SIGCOMM 2015
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	91-92
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-3542-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2785956.2789996
Publication status	Published - 18 Aug 2015
Event	Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication, ACM SIGCOMM 2015 - London, United Kingdom Duration: 17 Aug 2015 → 21 Aug 2015

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Conference	Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication, ACM SIGCOMM 2015
Abbreviated title	ACM SIGCOMM
Country	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	17/08/15 → 21/08/15

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EWI-26581
METIS-315106
IR-98719

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van Rijswijk, R. M., Jonker, M., Sperotto, A., & Pras, A. (2015). The Internet of Names: A DNS Big Dataset - Actively Measuring 50% of the Entire DNS Name Space, Every Day. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication, SIGCOMM 2015 (pp. 91-92). New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/2785956.2789996

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The Internet of Names: A DNS Big Dataset - Actively Measuring 50% of the Entire DNS Name Space, Every Day. / van Rijswijk, Roland M.; Jonker, Mattijs; Sperotto, Anna ; Pras, Aiko.

Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication, SIGCOMM 2015. New York : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2015. p. 91-92.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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