DNS is a distributed and hierarchal database whose main purpose is to exchange names (e.g. www.google.com) for IP addresses (e.g. 12.34.56.78).

DNS Reading List

• A Look at the ECS Behavior of DNS Resolvers • Comments on DNS Robustness • DNS Measurements at a Root Server • An Empirical Study of the Cost of DNS-over-HTTPS • On Modern DNS Behavior and Properties • A Day At The Root of The Internet • Detecting Malicious Flux Service Networks through Passive Analysis of Recursive DNS Traces • ZMap: Fast Internet-wide Scanning and Its Security Applications • Domain Name System (DNS) Cookies • Detecting DNS Root Manipulation • Identifying Aggressive DNS Resolver Behaviors using Unsupervised Machine Learning • Going Wild: Large-Scale Classification of Open DNS Resolvers • All Your DNS Records Point to Us Understanding the Security Threats of Dangling DNS RecordsThreats of Dangling DNS Records • An End-to-End, Large-Scale Measurement of DNS-over-Encryption: How Far Have We Come? • AWS DNS network hijack turns MyEtherWallet into ThievesEtherWallet • Deploying and Monitoring DNS Security (DNSSEC) • DNS Lame delegations: A case-study of public reverse DNS records in the African Region • Rate-limiting State • A Deep Dive into DNS Query Failures • Limiting Replay Vulnerabilities in DNSSEC • Deploying Cryptography in Internet-Scale Systems: A Case Study on DNSSEC