RT Journal Article
T1 Measuring the global recursive DNS infrastructure: a view from the edge
A1 Callejo Pinardo, Patricia
A1 Cuevas Rumín, Rubén
A1 Vallina-Rodriguez, Narseo
A1 Cuevas Rumín, Ángel
AB The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most critical Internet subsystems. While themajority of ISPs deploy and operate their own DNS infrastructure, many end users resort to third-party DNSproviders with hopes of enhancing their privacy, security, and web performance. However, bad user choicesand the uneven geographical deployment of DNS providers could render insecure and inef cient DNScon gurations for millions of users. In this paper, we propose a novel and  exible measurement method to(1) study the infrastructure of recursive DNS resolvers, including both ISP's and third-party DNS providers'deployment strategies; and (2) study end-user DNS choices, both in a timely manner and at a global scale. Forthat, we leverage the outreach capacity of online advertising networks to distribute lightweight JavaScriptbasedDNS measurement scripts. To showcase the potential of our technique, we launch two separate adcampaigns that triggered more than 3M DNS lookups, which allow us to identify and study more than76k recursive DNS resolvers giving support to more than 25k eyeball ASes in 178 countries. The analysisof the data offers new insights into the DNS infrastructure, such as user preferences towards third-partyDNS providers (namely, Google, OpenDNS, Level3, and Cloud are recursive DNS resolvers account for~13% of the total DNS requests triggered by our campaigns), and into deployment decisions of many ISPsproviding both mobile and  xed access networks to separate the DNS infrastructure serving each type ofaccess technology.
PB Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
SN 2169-3536
YR 2019
FD 2019-10-29
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/35241
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/35241
LA eng
NO This work was supported in part by the Spanish Grant TIN2017-88749-R (DiscoEdge), in part by the Region of Madrid EdgeData-CMProgram under Grant P2018/TCS-4499, in part by the Ministerio de Economía y Empresa, Spain, under Project TEC2016-76795-C6-3-Rand Grant RyC-2015-17732, and in part by the European H2020 Project SMOOTH under Grant 786741.
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