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[ NNSquad ] DNS, DNSSEC and Google's Public DNS Service
(Administrivia: Catching up on a number of more technical items that have collected over the last week or so.) DNS, DNSSEC and Google's Public DNS Service http://j.mp/1dMnfSd (Circle ID) "Since March 2013 we've seen the proportion of end users who use DNSSEC resolvers that perform DNSSEC validation rise from 3.3% to 8.1%, or a rise of some 4.7%. Most, but not all of this rise, can be attributed to Google's Public DNS service, which is used exclusively by some 5.6% of all clients across the entire Internet. When Google turned on DNSSEC validation on their resolvers, the majority of these clients were then performing DNSSEC validation even though they had not changed any part of their local DNS configuration. Just over one half of all clients who are seen to be performing DNSSEC validation, use Google's Public DNS Servers. However, that's not the total population of users who avail themselves of Google's DNS services. A further 3.7% of users also use Google's Public DNS service, but they use it in conjunction with other DNS resolvers. The most common case here is that the other DNS resolvers used by the client, or by the client's local DNS resolver, do not use DNSSEC validation, so the SERVFAIL response from the query to Google's service prompts additional DNS queries to be made to other configured DNS resolvers. A total of 9.4% of the clients we saw in this experiment made use of Google's Public DNS service in one way or another." - - - Very much worth reading. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad