DNS
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The Domain Name System (DNS) [1] provides an essential service on the
Internet, mapping structured names to a variety of different types of
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... Modeling Usage of the DNS ...
... Figure 1
Figure 1 shows a simple conceptual model of how the DNS is used by
applications. A user of the application obtains an identifier for
particular content or service ...
... application in order to provide service to the user. To do that, it
contacts a DNS server to resolve the domain name in the identifier to
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... The problem is that this notion of community is a false one. The
Internet is global. The DNS is global. There is no technical
barrier that separates those inside of the community from those
outside. The ease with which information propagates across the
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... formats, coupled with the ease of conveyance of URIs, makes such
leakage merely a matter of time. Furthermore, since the DNS is
global, and since it can only have one root [12 ...
... domains because of the
notion that there is some kind of centralized control that can
enforce those assumptions. However, the DNS is not centralized; it
is distributed. If a domain ...
... broadband provider,
and through dynamic DNS have a hostname within the domain of that
provider ...
... A client implementation may make the assumption that, just because a
DNS SRV record exists for a particular protocol in a particular
domain ...
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Based on the definition of an assumption given here, the behavior
hinted at by records in the DNS also represents an assumption. RFC
2219 [19 ...
... Gulbrandsen, A., Vixie, P., and L. Esibov, "A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV ...
... Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part Three: The Domain Name System (DNS) Database", RFC 3403prop, October 2002. ...
... Internet Architecture Board, "IAB Technical Comment on the Unique DNS Root", RFC 2826, May 2000. ...
... Faltstrom, P., "Design Choices When Expanding DNS", Work in Progress, June 2005. ...