Assessing e-Government DNS Resilience

Raffaele  Sommese; Mattijs  Jonker; Jeroen van der Ham; Giovane C. M. Moura

doi:10.23919/CNSM55787.2022.9965155

Assessing e-Government DNS Resilience

Raffaele Sommese, Mattijs Jonker, Jeroen van der Ham, Giovane C. M. Moura

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Abstract

Electronic government (e-gov) enables citizens and residents to digitally interact with their government via the Internet. Underpinning these services is the Internet Domain Name Systems (DNS), which maps e-gov domain names to Internet addresses. Structuring DNS with multiple levels of redundancy that can withstand stress events such as denial-of-service (DoS) attacks is a challenging task. While the operator community has established best practices to this end, adopting them all involves expert knowledge and resources. In this work, we obtain and study a list of e-gov domain names used by four countries (The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States) and measure the DNS structuring of these domains. We show the adoption of best practices, inter-country differences such as the use of anycast, and provide recommendations to improve DNS service robustness.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2022 18th International Conference of Network and Service Management
Subtitle of host publication	Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services, CNSM 2022
Editors	Marinos Charalambides, Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Walter Cerroni, Salil Kanhere, Lefteris Mamatas
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	118-126
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-903176-51-5
ISBN (Print)	978-1-6654-8992-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.23919/CNSM55787.2022.9965155
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	2022 18th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) - Thessaloniki, Greece Duration: 31 Oct 2022 → 4 Nov 2022 Conference number: 28th

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Name	Proceedings of the 2022 18th International Conference of Network and Service Management: Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services, CNSM 2022

Conference

Conference	2022 18th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM)
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Thessaloniki
Period	31/10/22 → 4/11/22

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Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

DNS
DDoS
E-gov
Resilience
Authoritative DNS

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Sommese, R., Jonker, M., van der Ham, J., & Moura, G. C. M. (2022). Assessing e-Government DNS Resilience. In M. Charalambides, P. Papadimitriou, W. Cerroni, S. Kanhere, & L. Mamatas (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2022 18th International Conference of Network and Service Management: Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services, CNSM 2022 (pp. 118-126). (Proceedings of the 2022 18th International Conference of Network and Service Management: Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services, CNSM 2022). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.23919/CNSM55787.2022.9965155

Sommese, Raffaele ; Jonker, Mattijs ; van der Ham, Jeroen et al. / Assessing e-Government DNS Resilience. Proceedings of the 2022 18th International Conference of Network and Service Management: Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services, CNSM 2022. editor / Marinos Charalambides ; Panagiotis Papadimitriou ; Walter Cerroni ; Salil Kanhere ; Lefteris Mamatas. IEEE, 2022. pp. 118-126 (Proceedings of the 2022 18th International Conference of Network and Service Management: Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services, CNSM 2022).

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Sommese, R, Jonker, M, van der Ham, J & Moura, GCM 2022, Assessing e-Government DNS Resilience. in M Charalambides, P Papadimitriou, W Cerroni, S Kanhere & L Mamatas (eds), Proceedings of the 2022 18th International Conference of Network and Service Management: Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services, CNSM 2022. Proceedings of the 2022 18th International Conference of Network and Service Management: Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services, CNSM 2022, IEEE, pp. 118-126, 2022 18th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Thessaloniki, Greece, 31/10/22. https://doi.org/10.23919/CNSM55787.2022.9965155

Assessing e-Government DNS Resilience. / Sommese, Raffaele ; Jonker, Mattijs; van der Ham, Jeroen et al.
Proceedings of the 2022 18th International Conference of Network and Service Management: Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services, CNSM 2022. ed. / Marinos Charalambides; Panagiotis Papadimitriou; Walter Cerroni; Salil Kanhere; Lefteris Mamatas. IEEE, 2022. p. 118-126 (Proceedings of the 2022 18th International Conference of Network and Service Management: Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services, CNSM 2022).

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Sommese R, Jonker M, van der Ham J, Moura GCM. Assessing e-Government DNS Resilience. In Charalambides M, Papadimitriou P, Cerroni W, Kanhere S, Mamatas L, editors, Proceedings of the 2022 18th International Conference of Network and Service Management: Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services, CNSM 2022. IEEE. 2022. p. 118-126. (Proceedings of the 2022 18th International Conference of Network and Service Management: Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services, CNSM 2022). doi: 10.23919/CNSM55787.2022.9965155

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