DNS servers
Reducing the Risk of DNS Cache Poisoning Via the Kaminsky DNS Vulnerability
White Paper The results: on it's own, NitroSecurity's proffered solution provides protection on par with a properly applied DNS server patch; when used to protect patched DNS servers, the protection... [13 Nov 2009]
Preprocessing DNS Log Data for Effective Data Mining
White Paper Defending DNS servers from bandwidth attacks is assisted by the ability to effectively mine DNS log data for statistical patterns. The Domain Name Service (DNS) provides... [29 Aug 2009]
Migrating From Solaris 9 Enterprise on Sun Fire V440 With Bind 8.3.3 to Solaris 10 Enterprise on Dell PowerEdge R900 With Bind 9.3.5-P1
White Paper The Dell PowerEdge R900 is an excellent server for upgrading critical Domain Name Service (DNS) servers from BIND 8 running on Solaris 9 to BIND 9 running on Solaris 10. This Migration Guide reviews the... [07 Aug 2009]
Staff Cost Savings Models to Justify RISC Migration
White Paper And even though the systems used expensive, proprietary components and were expensive to operate, many organizations ran their critical business applications - including database, ERP, CRM, DNS server, and others - on... [05 Aug 2009]
TechNet Webcast: Using the Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Tools (Level 300)
White Paper The presenter guides the attendee through an Active Directory and infrastructure server migration, which include IP, Domain Name System (DNS), and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) migrations. [04 Jul 2009]
Increased DNS Forgery Resistance Through 0x20-Bit Encoding
White Paper Fortuitously, almost all DNS authority servers preserve the mixed case encoding of the query in answer messages. The analysis includes a basic model of DNS poisoning, measurement of the... [30 Jun 2009]
Collaborative Detection of Fast Flux Phishing Domains
White Paper It proposes two approaches to correlate evidence from multiple DNS servers and multiple suspect FF domains. Real-world experiments show that correlation approaches speed-up FF domain detection, based on... [30 Jun 2009]
Characterizing Large DNS Traces Using Graphs
White Paper The characterization is carried out using several novel techniques to identify clients, local DNS servers, and authoritative DNS servers. The increasing deployment of... [01 Jun 2009]
Innovative Italian Service Provider DNS Hosting Supports Its Virtualization Strategy With ZXTM Virtual Appliance
White Paper DNS Hosting has a data center containing over 300 physical servers. After a number of years of successful growth, and having just created a virtualized data center, DNS Hosting decided... [30 Apr 2009]
Managing Windows Server 2003 Best Practices - Part 3: DNS Administration-Level 200
White Paper Part three, will outline essential administrative tasks and the frequency at which they should be performed when managing DNS servers, and illustrate the basics of backup and restore, scope and database... [30 Jan 2009]
TechNet Webcast: Securing Active Directory (Level 200)
White Paper The webcast includes recommendations for protecting domain controllers against known threats, establishing administrative policies and practices, protecting Domain Name System (DNS) servers, and... [11 Dec 2008]
Dynamic Pharming Attacks and Locked Same-Origin Policies for Web Browsers
White Paper Dynamic pharming works by hijacking DNS and sending the victim's browser malicious Javascript, which then exploits DNS rebinding vulnerabilities and the name-based same-origin policy to hijack a... [18 Nov 2008]
Telstra BigPond Upgrades ISP Infrastructure With Nominum CNS and Sun
White Paper Nominum's Foundation servers include carrier-grade network naming (dNs) and addressing (dHcP) services. Telstra BigPond wanted to consolidate network infrastructure to reduce costs and... [08 Nov 2008]
TechNet Webcast: Simplify Branch IT With Citrix Technology (Level 200)
White Paper To address this challenge, many organizations have chosen to centralize branch IT, often at the expense of important services at the branch, including file/print, identity, DHCP, and DNS, resulting in new challenges at... [06 Nov 2008]
Client Puzzles as a Defense Against Network Denial of Service
White Paper Another large distributed denial of service attack in October 2002 took out nine of the thirteen root DNS servers. The threat posed by network denial of service attacks is a growing concern as these... [22 Oct 2008]