• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.10
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• pp.2750-2763
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• 2012

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a critical Internet infrastructure that provides name to address mapping services. In the past decade, Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks have targeted the DNS infrastructure and threaten to disrupt this critical service. While the flooding DoS attacks may be alleviated by the DNS caching mechanism, we show in this paper that flooding DoS attacks utilizing name error queries is capable of bypassing the cache of resolvers and thereby impose overwhelming flooding attacks on the name servers. We analyze the impacts of such DoS attacks on both name servers and resolvers, which are further illustrated by May 19 China's DNS Collapse. We also propose the detection and defense approaches for protecting DNS servers from such DoS attacks. In the proposal, the victim zones and attacking clients are detected through monitoring the number of corresponding responses maintained in the negative cache. And the attacking queries can be mitigated by the resolvers with a sample proportion adaptive to the percent of queries for the existent domain names. We assess risks of the DoS attacks by experimental results. Measurements on the request rate of DNS name server show that this kind of attacks poses a substantial threat to the current DNS service.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.3B
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• pp.375-390
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• 2004

Domain Name System(DNS), one of the most important Internet services, handles mapping from host names to Internet addresses and vice versa, and precedes many Internet applications such as Web, e-mail, file transfer, etc. In this paper, we propose a structural design of a generic name server system providing name services for a huge domain for the purpose of improving the performance as well as the reliability of the system. We demonstrate the validity of the design by implementing and running a testbed system. Our testbed employs a couple of master name sowers for distributing the service overhead over two, rather than one, servers and for achieving high availability of the system as a whole. We suggest the use of dynamic update to add and delete records from a zone for which the name server has authority. The slave name servers located remotely then get a new, updated copy of the zone via incremental zone transfers(IXFRs). The experiments with the implemented testbed show that the proposed structure would easily manage increasing demands on the server power, and be highly available in the face of transient faults of a module in the system.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37B no.11
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• pp.1082-1089
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• 2012

Recent malicious attempts in Cyber space are intended to emerge national threats such as Suxnet as well as to get financial benefits through a large pool of comprised botnets. The evolved botnets use the Domain Name System(DNS) to communicate with the C&C server and zombies. DNS is one of the core and most important components of the Internet and DNS traffic are continually increased by the popular wireless Internet service. On the other hand, domain names are popular for malicious use. This paper studies on DNS-based cyber threats domain detection by data classification based on supervised learning. Furthermore, the developed cyber threats domain detection system using DNS traffic analysis provides collection, analysis, and normal/abnormal domain classification of huge amounts of DNS data.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.55-60
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• 2012

Recent botnets are widely using the DNS services at the connection of C&C server in order to evade botnet's detection. It is necessary to study on DNS analysis in order to counteract anomaly-based technique using the DNS. This paper studies collection of DNS traffic for experimental data and supervised learning for DNS traffic-based malicious domain classification such as query of domain name corresponding to C&C server from zombies. Especially, this paper would aim to determine significant features of DNS-based classification system for malicious domain extraction by the Principal Component Analysis(PCA).

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.95-105
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• 2010

DNS(Domain Name System) is a huge distributed database that converts host name to IP address. We are expecting the importance of DNS is more increased because many Internet application services appear according to the continuous increase of Internet users and nearly all the Internet application services use DNS. To prevent the interruption of DNS service, DNS server is configured with primary DNS server and a secondary DNS server which takes the place of primary DNS server in case of the service interruption. But this scheme is difficult for providing DNS service constantly in case of DDoS attack, which brings about much network load or network problems in DNS server group. Therefore, This paper proposed the scheme to locally distribute load of DNS server, and the use of address system to group the distributed DNS servers. Also, it proposed the authentication scheme of the correspondent server in case the server is changed in DNS server group having grouping address. In this paper, it is shown that the prosed scheme guarantees the improved service reliability with maintaining the present service performance through the evaluation. Through this, we can expect the high improved DNS service can be provided in the Internet environment in the future.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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• v.36C no.12
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• pp.1-10
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• 1999

Given a domain, client applications over the Internet are in support of the DNS (Domain Name System) to get its corresponding IP address. Currently, only domain names expressed by ASCII code are recognized over the Internet. This enforces the usage of ASCII domain names even in countries which use languages based on multilingual code other than ASCII code. In this paper, we present a methodology to support multilingual domain names on top of the existing DNS. The methodology is based on code translation of domain names in multilingual code into ASCII code via UTF5. We implement a gateway, called Proxy Hangul DNS (P-HDNS) based on the proposed methodology. This paper presents the principles of the methodology and the implementation details of P-HDNS.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.52-57
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• 2019

DNS stands for 'Domain Name System' and uses IP addresses to identify devices connected to the network on the network. IP is a protocol that registers and manages aliases such as IPs because it is difficult for general users to remember. In recent years, the abuse of such DNS is increasing abroad, and behind the scenes, called 'DNS pionage,' are developing and evolving new rules and malware. DNSpionage attack is abusing DNS system such as Increasing hacking success rate, leading to fake sites, changing or forged data. As a result it is increasing the damage cases. As the global DNS system is expanding to the extent that it is out of control. Therefore, in this research, the countermeasures of DNSpionage attack is proposed to contribute to build a secure and efficient DNS system.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.11
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• pp.1441-1451
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• 2015

As one of the most spotlighted research areas, these days, the Internet of Things (IoT) aims to provide users with various services through many devices. Since there exist so many devices in IoT environments, it is inefficient to manually configure the domain name system (DNS) names of such devices. Thus, for IPv6-based IoT environments, this paper proposes a scheme called the DNS Name Autoconfiguration (DNSNA) that autoconfigures an IoT device's DNS name and manages it. In the procedure for generating and registering an IoT device's DNS name, the standard protocols of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) are used. Since the proposed scheme resolves an IoT device's DNS name into an IPv6 address in unicast through a DNS server, it generates less traffic than multicast-based mDNS (Multicast DNS) which is a legacy DNS application for the DNS name service in the smart home. Thus, the proposed scheme is more appropriate in multi-hop IoT networks than mDNS. This paper explains the design of the proposed scheme and its service scenarios, such as smart home and smart road. It also explains the implementation and testing of the proposed scheme in the smart grid.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.12
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• pp.273-282
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• 2007

The Domain Name System (DNS) is the core system for managing Internet address resources, providing the most fundamental naming service. Currently, the DNS is classified into a tree structure. In this structure, it is difficult to normally access to the lower DNS, when there is an error in the upper DNS. Such a risk still remains even when a supplementary DNS is operated. However, due to the merit of the DNS enabling fast searches, it is impracticable to abandon the current tree structure. To efficiently correspond to DNS errors, this study suggests a method where the merit of the current tree structure is kept, while a temporary operation of the local DNS is available when errors occur by adding a horizontal and independent DNS structure.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.3-13
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• 2006

Internet mail has become a common communication method to send and receive an amount of data due to the tremendous high speed Internet service increment. But in other respect, the risk and damage of Junk mail is growing rapidly and nowadays Junk mail delivery problem is becoming more serious, because this is used for an attack or propagation scheme of malicious code. It's a most dangerous dominant cause for computer system accident. This paper shows the Junk mail characteristic which is based on the analysis of mail log in reality and then shows the implementation of the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) check and Personalized classification system and evaluates its performance.