I am pleased to announce the BIND 1999 Survey has been published and
released as a historical document. Limited public access will be provided
in the near future. An announcement will be made here in ifwp, and the dp
lists.
The bind survey went well. It was distributed last weekend prior to the
icann meeting (and during). Over 80,000 emails were send to domain
operators world wide. We had to stop at 80,000 because someone ?-)
attacked the entire Ontario cable/ISP grid causing massive DHCP and
connectivity problems. This happened shortly after we had processed
5,000 requests for information - and had an additional 5,000 in queue.
Of the 80,000 emails send - 60,000 (approx) were returned undeliverable.
This is very scary. The purpose of a correct SOA record is to provide DNS
administrators with the ability to reconnect and contact each other in the
event of a catatrosphy. i.e. like thermonuclear war. This is what makes
the internet versitile against attack. However, that requires a level of
"perfect information" which no longer applies to SOA records.
In short the DNS is a mess and vulnerable to attack or serious disruption.
I have deposited the survey with a number of groups my board has
identified for distribution. A copy of that email is appended, and I have
attached a statistical summary of the data
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Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 13:53:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Joe Baptista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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Subject: BIND 1999 Survey enclosed
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Hello:
Please find the file named bind-1999-publish.tar.gz attached to this
email. This file is the BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Daemon) 1999 Survey
(c) 1997, 1998 & 1999 by Planet Communications & Computing Facility.
This file is of historical significance. This is the first time the
internet infrastructure has been tested for error and potential security
risks. The contents of this file are confidential and for the purpose of
copyright may not be distributed. Planet Communications & Computing
Facility will make available to the general public on or after January
1st, 2001 the contents of this file under a public GNU licensing
agreement. At that time you are free to distribute the contents to the
general public.
Every effort has been made to contact administrators of vulnerable name
servers, being BIND versions 4.9.5, 4.9.6 and 8.1.1, in the hope that said
name servers are upgraded.
The following entities are granted a limited license to use the BIND 1999
Survey for the purpose of organizing name server operators for political
and/or associated purposes and reasons;
1. International Root Server Confederation
2. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
3. Open Root Server Confederation.
The following entities are granted a limited license to use the BIND 1999
Survey for the purpose of correcting errors in the public domain name
system;
1. Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission
2. Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center
3. Federal Computer Incident Response Capability Team.
Regards
Joe Baptista, Director
Planet Communications & Computing Facility
Voice/Fax (212) 894-3704 ext. 1033
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STATISTICAL INFORMATION SUMMARY
1999 Internet Name Daemon Survey
(C) 1997, 1998, 1999 Planet Communications & Computing Facility
The 1999 (Berkeley) Internet Name Daemon Survey enumerated 223,697
systems/hosts maintained by 109,442 hostmasters. Of those systems
enumerated 199,166 returned valid SOA records. 24,527 SOA records were
misconfigured.
164,490 systems responded to ICMP, 46,701 failed ICMP. 12,493 hosts
failed to resolve. 161,209 hosts had an internet named daemon running and
62,476 listed dns hosts failed daemon tests.
BIND queries returned 7,082 versions of 4.9.5, 10,122 of v.4.9.6, 17,188
of v.4.9.7, 5,045 of v.8.1.1, 38,842 of v.8.1.2, and 6,984 of BIND version
8.2.
The enumeration was conducted during the period of June 3rd, 1999 to July
7th, 1999. 54 top level domain zone files dated from April 11th, 1999 to
July 4th, 1999 were used to extract host information. A listing of the
zones follows:
ZONE DATE # HOSTS DESCRIPTION
----- -------------- ------- ---------------------
. Apr 11, 1999 413 TLD name servers
ar Jul 3, 1999 2891 Argentina
arpa Jun 13, 1999 19625 ARPA ipv4
at Jun 28, 1999 3593 Austria
au Jun 8, 1999 11214 Australia
be Jun 27, 1999 2219 Belgium
ca Jun 1, 1999 8026 Canada
cl Jul 4, 1999 2649 Chile
cn Jun 12, 1999 8183 China
co Jul 4, 1999 1905 Colombia
com Apr 27, 1999 134333 Commercial Domains
cz Jul 4, 1999 2514 Czech Republic
de Jun 13, 1999 7585 Germany
edu Jun 2, 1999 6506 Educational Institutions
ee Jul 4, 1999 468 Estonia
es Jun 15, 1999 2273 Spain
fi Jun 27, 1999 2097 Finland
fr Jun 8, 1999 3904 France
gov Jun 2, 1999 716 U.S. Government
gr Jul 4, 1999 1898 Greece
hu Jul 4, 1999 1089 Hungary
id Jul 4, 1999 1125 Indonesia
ie Jul 4, 1999 1025 Ireland
il Jul 4, 1999 1868 Israel
in Jun 15, 1999 775 India
is Jul 4, 1999 284 Iceland
it Jun 13, 1999 4788 Italy
lt Jul 4, 1999 390 Lithuania
lv Jul 4, 1999 668 Latvia
mil Apr 30, 1999 121 U.S. Military
my Jun 15, 1999 2095 Malaysia
nl Jun 27, 1999 2784 Netherlands
no Jun 27, 1999 1615 Norway
nu Jun 12, 1999 7115 Niue
nz Jul 4, 1999 2290 New Zealand (Aotearoa)
org Apr 30, 1999 61739 Organizations
pl Jun 27, 1999 2054 Poland
pt Jun 15, 1999 1142 Portugal
ro Jul 4, 1999 1504 Romania
ru Jun 5, 1999 5009 Russian Federation
se Jun 27, 1999 4892 Sweden
sg Jul 4, 1999 2550 Singapore
si Jul 4, 1999 640 Slovenia
sk Jul 4, 1999 2007 Slovak Republic
su Jul 4, 1999 751 USSR (former)
th Jul 4, 1999 898 Thailand
to Jun 8, 1999 4948 Tonga
tr Jul 4, 1999 1573 Turkey
tw Jun 27, 1999 356 Taiwan
ua Jul 4, 1999 1692 Ukraine
uk Jun 8, 1999 10012 United Kingdom
us Jul 3, 1999 4738 United States
uy Jul 4, 1999 250 Uruguay
za Jun 27, 1999 2491 South Africa
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Voice/Fax (212) 894-3704 ext. 1033
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