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Year 2 of the NSF sponsored CAIDA DNS project was from September 1, 2005 till August 31, 2006.
| Operational characterization of DNS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Task | Lead | Collaborators | Notes | Status | ||
| 7-day delayed web pages of workload on F root global nodes | Duane Wessels | Measurement Factory, ISC | dsc | done | ||
| Simultaneous data collection at multiple DNS root server anycast instances | Paul Vixie, Brian Reid | ISC & OARC members | tcpdump | 48 hrs of data in Sep 05 & Jan 06 | ||
| Analysis of load at anycast root servers | kc claffy, Marina Fomenkov, Brad Huffaker | ISC | perl scripts | published | ||
| Analysis of spurious traffic at root servers | TBD | ISC | perl scripts | |||
| Recommendations for future large scale simultaneous DNS data collections | kc claffy, Marina Fomenkov, Brad Huffaker | ISC & OARC | done | |||
| Monitor open resolvers in the Internet | Duane Wessels | scripts | ongoing since Jun 06 | |||
| Solicit feedback on open resolver survey from operator community | Duane Wessels, Brad Huffaker | Measurement Factory | scripts | ongoing | ||
| Run dsc on CAIDA & SDSC servers | Josh Polterock | SDSC | dsc | done | ||
| Research & modeling | ||||||
| Task | Lead | Collaborators | Notes | Status | ||
| Anycast simulations | kc claffy, George Riley | GA Tech | scripts | done | ||
| Analysis of RFC1918 private addresses in DNS | Hao Shang, Marina Fomenkov | ISC | perl scripts | published | ||
| Indexing traces collected at root servers in 2006 into the DatCat | Marina Fomenkov, Brad Huffaker | CoralReef, submission API | done | |||
| Outreach | ||||||
| Task | Lead | Collaborators | Notes | Status | ||
| CAIDA DNS project web site | Marina Fomenkov, Alex Ma | web scripts | done | |||
| Configuration BCPs for DNS resolvers | Duane Wessels | Measurement Factory | ||||
| Instructions how to disable dynamic DNS updates on Microsoft Windows systems | Hao Shang, Marina Fomenkov | done | ||||
| DNS research workshop | kc claffy | ISC | done in Year 3 | |||
| Publish the list of Open Resolvers | Duane Wessels | Measurement Factory | done | |||
| Publish case studies of root server clients' misbehavior | Duane Wessels | ISC (F-root), Measurement Factory | dsc | done | ||
| Tools | ||||||
| Task | Lead | Collaborators | Notes | Status | ||
| Collect dsc user feedback | Marina Fomenkov, Tom Guptill | done | ||||
| Modify dsc | Duane Wessels, TBD | Measurement Factory | done | |||
| Develop dsc "Easy to install" guide | Marina Fomenkov, Tom Guptill | done | ||||
| Maintain NeTraMet traffic monitor | Nevil Brownlee | Univ. of Auckland | ongoing | |||