A Survey Report of DNSSEC new extension Incidents Detection in IETF working Tasks and Authenticity Protocols
Naresh Kumar, Umesh Sehgal · 2013
The Domain Name System (DNS) is vital to the Internet, providing a mechanism for resolving host names into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Insecure underlying protocols and lack of authentication and integrity checking of the information within the DNS threaten the proper functionality of the DNS. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is working on DNS security extensions to increase security within the DNS, known as DNSSEC. These security issues and solutions are presented in this paper. The threats that surround the DNS are due in part to the lack of authenticity and integrity checking of the data held within the DNS and in part to other protocols that use host names as an access control mechanism. In response to this, the IETF formed a working group to add DNS Security (DNSSEC) extensions to the existing DNS protocol. This paper gives an overview of the DNS, its security weaknesses, and the new security extensions being worked on by the IETF’s DNSSEC Working Group (WG).