On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 06:59, Joe Baptista wrote: > FYI - enjoy > > regards > joe baptista > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29185.html > > Dud queries swamp US Internet Root servers > By Joe Baptista > Posted: 05/02/2003 at 09:47 GMT >
> The Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) at > the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) which conducted the research > is trying to understand why the roots get so many broken queries from > Internet service providers. I just add URL of the CAIDA project: http://www.caida.org/projects/dns-analysis/ > DNS root servers provide a critical service to Internet users by > mapping text host names to numeric Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. > The 13 roots are operated by a mix of volunteers and U.S. government > agencies. The U.S. Department of Commerce is the agency responsible > for managing the root system which serves most Internet users. I just add URL of route servers homepage: http://root-servers.org/ > "If the system were functioning properly, it seems that a single > source should need to send no more than 1,000 or so queries to a root > name server in a 24-hour period," said CAIDA researcher Duane Wessels. > "Yet we see millions of broken queries from certain sources." > > CAIDA researchers speculate that 70 per cent of the bad requests are > due to misconfigured packet filters, firewalls, or other security > mechanisms intended to restrict network traffic. Twelve per cent of > the illegitimate traffic however could not be explained and was for > nonexistent top-level domains, such as ".elvis", ".corp" and > "localhost". What do you think about AS112 Project ? http://as112.net/ Best Regards, -- [REDACTED], NDSoftware NDSoftware NOC: http://noc.ndsoftwarenet.com/ FNIX6: http://www.fnix6.net/ EuroNOG: http://www.euronog.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- EuroNOG: http://www.euronog.org/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
