Redundant, Secure, and Open Short Domains: A Vision for Multi-Provider Apex Domain Aliases to Enable DNS Diversity

One Small Step for DNS, One Giant Leap for the Internet Human nature is to seek simpler and convenient ways to do things. One example is the sometimes onerous task of typing a URL into a web browser's address bar. Since users prefer short, easy-to-remember URLs, an internet trend is to use short...

DNS over HTTPS

DNS over HTTPS DoH is a protocol for performing remote Domain Name System DNS resolution via the HTTPS protocol. A goal of the method is to increase user privacy and security by preventing eavesdropping and manipulation of DNS data by man-in-the-middle attacks1 by using the HTTPS protocol to...

Synchronize Your DNS to Multiple Providers: DNSControl

Synchronize Your DNS to Multiple Providers DNSControl is a system for maintaining DNS zones. It has two parts: a domain specific language DSL for describing DNS zones plus software that processes the DSL and pushes the resulting zones to DNS providers such as Route53, CloudFlare, and Gandi. It ca...

Mirai-Fueled IoT Botnet Behind DDoS Attacks on DNS Providers

A botnet of connected things strung together by the Mirai malware is responsible for Friday’s distributed denial-of-service attacks against DNS provider Dyn. The DDoS attacks impacted Internet service on the East Coast of the United States, and were responsible for keeping Dyn and a number of its...