Phokeer, Amreesh and Aina, Alain and Johnson, David (2016) DNS Lame delegations: A case-study of public reverse DNS records in the African Region, Proceedings of 8th EAI International Conference on e‐Infrastructure and e‐Services for Developing Countries (AFRICOMM 2016), 6-7 December 2016, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
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Abstract
The DNS, as one of the oldest components of the modern Internet, has been studied multiple times. It is a known fact that operational issues such as mis-configured name servers affect the responsiveness of the DNS service which could lead to delayed responses or failed queries. One of such misconfigurations is lame delegation and this article explains how it can be detected and also provides guidance to the African Internet community as to whether a policy lame reverse DNS should be enforced. It also gives an overview of the degree of lameness of the AFRINIC reverse domains where it was found that 45% of all reverse domains are lame.
| Item Type: | Conference paper |
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| Subjects: | Computer systems organization > Architectures > Distributed architectures |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Feb 2017 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2019 15:32 |
| URI: | http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/1144 |
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