Abstract

The Domain Name System (DNS) is part of critical internet infrastructure, as DNS is invoked whenever a remote server is accessed (an URL is visited, an API request is made, etc.) by any application. DNS queries are served in hierarchical manner, with most queries served locally from cached data, and a small fraction propagating to the top of the hierarchy – DNS root name servers. Our research aims to provide a comprehensive, longitudinal characterization of DNS queries received at B-Root over ten years. We sampled and analyzed a 28-billion-query large dataset from the ten annual "Day in the Life of the Internet (DITL)" experiments, from 2013 through 2022. We sought to identify and quantify unexpected DNS queries, establish longitudinal trends, and compare our findings with published results of others. We found that unexpected query traffic increased from 39.57% in 2013 to 67.91% in 2022, with 36.55% of …

Metadata

publication

2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications …, 2022

year

2022

publication date

2022/12/6

authors

Jacob Ginesin, Jelena Mirkovic

link

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10062307/

resource_link

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.07966

conference

2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT)

pages

265-270

publisher

IEEE