OARC 29 & 39th CENTR Technical Workshop (Amsterdam)

13 Oct 2018, 08:00 → 14 Oct 2018, 18:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Heian I/II (Okura Hotel)

Keith Mitchell (DNS-OARC), Ray Bellis (Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.)

DNS-OARC is returning to Amsterdam, NL for its 29th Workshop to have a joint Programme with the 39th CENTR Technical Workshop!

DNS-OARC is a non-profit, membership organization that seeks to improve the security, stability, and understanding of the Internet's DNS infrastructure. Part of these aims are achieved through workshops.

DNS-OARC Workshops are open to OARC members and to all other parties interested in DNS operations and research, with attendees from RIPE 77 particularly welcome this time around - as OARC 29 and CENTR-Tech 39 takes place just before this in the same venue.

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Video

• Day One, Morning
• Day One, Afternoon, Session One
• Day One, Afternoon, Session Two


• Day Two, Morning, Session One
• Day Two, Morning, Session Two
• Day Two, Afternoon

Jabber: xmpp:dns-operations@conference.dns-oarc.net

Twitter hashtag: #OARC29

Sponsors: We have various sponsor opportunities for OARC workshops.

If your organization is interested in sponsoring OARC workshops, please e-mail sponsor@dns-oarc.net for more information.

AGM2018

• OARC 2017 AGM Minutes
• OARC 2017 AGM Minutes (corrected)
• OARC 2017 Financial Statements
• OARC AGM Proxy Form
• OARC AGM Resolutions
• Revised OARC Participation Agreement

Saturday, 13 October

08:00 → 09:00 CENTR Members Registration

09:00 → 10:30 CENTR members only: CENTR

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

10:30 → 11:00 Registration for all

11:00 → 12:30 Joint OARC & CENTR-Tech Public Workshop: Day 1, Session 1 (OARC Update)

Convener: Mr Keith Mitchell (DNS-OARC)

DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS at Cambridge

DNS UDP replies using MAC address

TTLs in RFC8918 NSEC Aggressive Use

11:00 Introduction from OARC Chairman

Speaker: Duane Wessels (Verisign)

OARC29-Intro.odp

OARC29-Intro.pdf

11:05 OARC Status Report

Speaker: Mr Keith Mitchell (DNS-OARC)

OARC29-AGM-report_18.odp

OARC29-AGM-report_18.pdf

11:40 OARC Engineering Report

Speakers: Jerry Lundström (DNS-OARC), Matthew Pounsett (DNS-OARC)

OARC29-DNS-OARC-Software.pdf

OARC29-Systems-Engineering-Full-Report.pdf

OARC29_Systems_Update.pdf

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 16:00 Joint OARC & CENTR-Tech Public Workshop: Day 1, Session 2

Convener: Mr Anand Buddhdev (RIPE NCC)

DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS at Cambridge

DNS UDP replies using MAC address

TTLs in RFC8918 NSEC Aggressive Use

13:45 PGP Signing - the Whys and Hows

Speaker: Matthew Pounsett (Nimbus)

keyparty_presentation.key

keyparty_presentation.pdf

14:00 Operational experience for DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and DNS over TLS (DoT)

Cloudflare has launched support for DoT and DoH for its 1.1.1.1 resolver from day 1. With DNS traditionally carried over UDP, moving to connection-based and encrypted transport protocols brings new operational challenges. This talk will cover the protocol uptake, deployment challenges with both protocols, as well as the feasibility and overhead for providing the service. It will show the evolution of our current system architecture, and client-side software.

Speaker: Ólafur Guðmundsson (CloudFlare)

DoT and DoH experience.pdf

14:30 Upcoming Changes to Verisign-Operated Top Level Domains

Verisign is planning to make a few changes to the operation of its TLDs in the coming months. These changes include increasing the truncation limit on large responses, increasing ZSK strength, reducing TTLs, and elimination of “cross-zone glue.” In this short presentation we explain the nature of the changes, the rationale, and when possible provide estimated timelines for their deployment.

Speaker: Duane Wessels (Verisign)

2018-10-OARC-Verisign-TLDs.pdf

14:45 Story of first rollover to ECDSA in TLD space

In CZ.NIC, we completed our third DNSSEC KSK rollover in June. It was our second algorithm rollover and it resulted in the first usage of ECDSA algorithm for DNSSEC KSK in TLD space. The talk will summarize how did we get to the situation when ECDSA algorithm is the most used DNSSEC algorithm in .CZ zone, how the conservative algorithm rollover was done and what we have learned during whole process.

Some links to the content I plan to talk about:

• https://en.blog.nic.cz/2017/05/18/new-statistics-and-increase-in-popularity-of-elliptic-curves-in-dnssec/
• https://en.blog.nic.cz/2018/06/01/transition-to-elliptic-curves-in-the-cz-domain/

Speaker: Mr Jaromír Talíř (CZ.NIC)

ecdsa-in-cz.pdf

15:00 KSK Rollover Discussion

DNS-OARC Lightning Talk - Baked In Trust Anchors - Final.pptx

KSK_Rollover_update_OARC.pptx

root-canary-msm.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:00 Joint OARC & CENTR-Tech Public Workshop: Day 1, Session 3

Convener: Shumon Huque (Salesforce)

DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS at Cambridge

DNS UDP replies using MAC address

TTLs in RFC8918 NSEC Aggressive Use

16:30 DNSThought - Everything you ever wanted to know about caching resolvers but were afraid to ask

On 20 and 21 April 2017, the RIPE DNS measurements hackathon took place. Our team created DNSThought: a measurements analysis portal providing insight into caching resolver's availability and capabilities. In the context of the project permanent running measurements were started for all resolvers of all probes in RIPE Atlas, measuring:

• Resolver identity (what IPs are seen at the authoritative eventually)
• IPv6 capability (can the resolver query IPv6 only nameservers)
• IPv4 and IPv6 TCP support
• NXDOMAIN hijacking

In June that year (2017), DNSThought started collaborating with the rootcanary project, and 78 more measurements were started looking into DNSSEC algorithm support. In July 2018 measurements were added for the root key trust anchor sentinel for DNSSEC.

In the presentation we show progression of those resolver capabilities over the last 18 month, and also how the portal can be used as a tool for operators and researches to provide detailed insight in availability and progression of capabilities of certain resolvers -- by ASN and/or geographical location -- currently and in the past.

Speaker: Willem Toorop (NLnet Labs)

dnsthought-oarc29-2.pdf

dnsthought-oarc29.odp

dnsthought-oarc29.pdf

17:00 DNS usage in LoRaWAN

Afnic has been working for a while towards the objective of extending
DNS for IoT use cases. Previously, Afnic worked with the GS1 standard
organisation (Barcode/RFID registry for the supply chain industry), and
contributed to the evolution of the Object Naming Service (ONS) standard
[EPCglobal standard]. The ONS standard uses DNS as an overlay for
service discovery. The use cases are - "track and trace" and "extended
packaging information" of a consumer product. The consequence of this
experience for Afnic was that, well established industries like the
supply chain are reluctant to use open infrastructure like DNS due to
fallacious paranoia.

This pushed us to look at upcoming technologies or nascent industries in
the IoT for using DNS. This is where we stumbled upon on LoRaWAN, which
started as a fablab project some three years ago. LoRaWAN is an
ISM-based wireless technology for long-range low-power low-data-rate
applications developed by the LoRa Alliance [LoRa Alliance], a
membership consortium.

LoRaWAN networks are typically organized in a star-of-stars topology in
which Gateways relay messages between end devices and a central "network
server" in the backend. Gateways are connected to the network server
via IP links, while end devices use single-hop LoRaWAN communication
that can be received at one or more Gateways.

LoRaWAN use case are multiple; from smart meters to geo-localisation to
agriculture. Since LoraWAN uses unlicensed band, the cost of setting up
the infrastructure (approximately 3 to 4 million euros CAPEX to cover a
region similar to France) and for users using the LoRaWAN service
(approximately 1 euro per device per month) is quite low.

Due to the low cost, there are public LoraWAN operators (e.g. Bouygues
and Orange in France) and also number of private operators. This results
in a scenario, wherein it is difficult to manage the roaming
infrastructure. Hence, the current backend interface specification [LoRa
Backend Interface] for LoRa uses DNS for roaming purpose.

Similarly, for Over the Air Activation (i.e. to set the first
communication session between the device and the network server in the
Internet), the backend specification uses DNS.

This talk will include

1. A basic introduction of the LoRa infrastructure
2. How DNS is used by the LoRaWAN ecossytem for Roaming and Over the Air
   Activation?
3. Afnic's involvement in the LoRa alliance as LoRa DNS operator
4. How possibly DNS could be used for cryptographic key exchanges in the
   LoRa ecosystem?
5. And, if there is time, how DNS could be used for exchanging the rules
   for compression/decompression?

Ref:

[EPCglobal standard]
http://www.gs1.org/gsmp/kc/epcglobal/ons/ons_2_0_1-standard-20130131.pdf
[LoRa Alliance] https://www.lora-alliance.org/
[LoRa Backend
Interface]https://lora-alliance.org/resource-hub/lorawantm-back-end-interfaces

Speaker: Mr sandoche Balakrichenan (Afnic)

LoRa-DNS-DNS-OARC.pdf

17:30 Hello-DNS: A new accessible entry point with text and running code

As noted recently, "getting" DNS now requires reading 2000 pages of RFCs. This partially explains the dire quality of new (closed source) DNS implementations. Hello-DNS is an effort to make DNS more accessible by explaining it in modern language, in the right order. This project has now also spawned a 'teachable authoritative server' (TDNS) which attempts to be a display of best-practices and 'doing it right'.

This presentation introduces 'Hello-DNS' and the 'TDNS' nameserver, and is also an appeal for more contributions so we can make this shine.

Finally, there is some discussion on the recent further increase of DNS complexity (& intertwining it with HTTPS and CDN logistics), and an overview of yet more standards text in our near future, and an open question what we should do with this.

Speaker: Mr Bert Hubert (PowerDNS)

Welcome to DNS-final.pdf

19:15 → 21:15 Social Event

Sunday, 14 October

08:30 → 09:00 Registration for all

09:00 → 10:30 Joint OARC & CENTR-Tech Public Workshop: Day 2, Session 1

Convener: Piet Barber (Verisign)

DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS at Cambridge

DNS UDP replies using MAC address

TTLs in RFC8918 NSEC Aggressive Use

09:00 Using the C-DNS file format in traffic capture

A traditional route for DNS traffic capture is to record traffic in PCAP format. Recorded files are compressed and used as input for subsequent processing. PCAP files, though, suffer from two disadvantages; they record much transport layer data that is unnecessary, and compression requires significant system resources.

The C-DNS file format (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-dns-capture-format/) for storing DNS traffic capture in a resource-efficient way is now moving towards standardisation. In this talk we discuss the background to C-DNS and give an overview of the format. We'll outline how the C-DNS format and its associated open source tools (including https://github.com/dns-stats/compactor) can be used to capture DNS traffic in resource constrained environments and look at an existing deployment for a busy root server.

We will also look at downstream processing of C-DNS files from PCAP re-generation to recent work on importing C-DNS into a ClickHouse database. The data can be used for both ad-hoc low-level queries and visualisation with Grafana to produce DSC-style graphs. We'll highlight the advantages of ClickHouse for this application and talk about scaling of this solution.

Speaker: Dr Jim Hague (Sinodun)

OARC29_C-DNS.pdf

09:30 Real-time Detection of Internationalized Domain Name-Based Brand Abuse

Internet bad actors have long been known to register look-alike domains and stand up phishing sites and create spam campaigns in order to hoodwink users into revealing personal information including login credentials, credit card numbers and social security numbers. Detecting and combatting criminal activity related to look-alike domains becomes a much more difficult problem when you start adding International Domain Names (IDNs) into that mix.

This talk will focus on Farsight's work with real-time detection of in-use IDN homographs.

This presentation will feature:

• Discussion of our method of detection/collection
• Overview of the analysis of a large corpus of "a year in the life of IDNs" including in-the-weeds analysis using various views of the corpus
• Gallery/discussion of a few real-world examples of detected (previously-) live phishing sites
• Call-to-action for awareness and up-stream mitigation

Speaker: Mr Mike Schiffman (Engineering Team Lead, Farsight Security, Inc)

IDN-homograph-mschiffm-DNS-OARC-2018-10-14.pdf

10:00 Resolver detection using machine learning

Using DNS traffic observed at the .nz nameservers, hand curated monitoring and resolver addresses, feature engineering and machine learning, we are able to identify resolver behaviour using traffic from an authorative nameserver. This technique can be extended to detect other patterns, like validating resolvers or QNAME minimization.

Speaker: Sebastian Castro (NZRS)

Resolver detection using machine learning - OARC29-02.pdf

Resolver detection using machine learning - OARC29-02.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Joint OARC & CENTR-Tech Public Workshop: Day 2, Session 2

Convener: Robert Edmonds (Fastly, Inc.)

DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS at Cambridge

DNS UDP replies using MAC address

TTLs in RFC8918 NSEC Aggressive Use

11:00 Where will encrypted DNS transports push DNS operators?

This talk will review the latest evolutions in encrypted DNS transports and the concept of 'Trusted Recursive Resolvers' (TRRs) from the operators perspective.

Mozilla and Firefox have partnered to operate a DoH (DNS-over-HTTPS) service for Firefox. There are currently no discovery mechanisms for DoH services (or Strict DNS-over-TLS) and as a result clients wanting to use them must use either fixed lists with defaults or have users provide configuration. While Cloudflare will likely be the short term default TRR for Firefox, it is not clear what the longer term plans are for Firefox, other browsers and new DoH use cases.

What does this mean for today's operators?

Will increasing amounts of traffic migrate from network provided resolvers to 'well-known' DoH/DoT providers? Will a secure and reliable discovery mechanism be developed and deployed in the near future? Will ISPs and enterprises be motivated to deploy DoH/DoT to retain visibility and control of the network traffic and also work around issues with hard-coded TRRs (such as breaks to split horizon DNS)? How will trust models between clients and resolvers evolve with the introduction of authenticated, encrypted protocols? Will one protocol win out or will operators more typically run multiple services (DNS-over-TLS/HTTPS/QUIC/foo)?

In this rapidly evolving landscape who knows what the situation will be by the time of OARC 28!

Speaker: Sara Dickinson (Sinodun IT)

OARC29_Encrypted_DNS.pdf

11:30 When the Dike Breaks: Dissecting DNS Defenses During DDoS

https://www.sidnlabs.nl/downloads/papers-reports/isi-tr-725.pdf

Speaker: Giovane Moura (SIDN Labs)

Moura2018b-IMC-FullPaper.pdf

OARC29-slides-Moura.pdf

12:00 Collaborative Security Challenges

In 2017, we started a cycle of security exercises for our organisation so as to be prepared to face DNS major attack / outage scenarios (e.g. DDoS attack, zone file corruption...). While the first edition was focused on IT response skills, with some crisis management, the second one was more meant to cover - as much as possible – all relevant aspects one organization must handle should a major security incident occur. Such a security exercise allowed us, for instance, to test our 3C’s (“Coordination”, “Co-operation” & “Communication”) from the time when the first alert was received, until when we were back to normal (or almost) and the crisis meeting was over.

We would like first to share information on main achievements and lessons learned from our 2017 exercise editions. We also would like to trigger some discussion on challenges ahead in terms of involving relevant partners in the future exercises preparation, such as transit providers, Anycast providers, DNS resolver operators, registrars and DNS hosting providers.

PLEASE NOTE the slides for this presentation are not available at the Speaker's request.

Speakers: Vincent Levigneron (AFNIC), Mr Mohsen Souissi (AFNIC)

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch

13:00 → 13:40 PGP Signing Session

Send your PGP keys to pgpsign@dns-oarc.net before the morning break on Saturday.

Speaker: Matthew Pounsett (Nimbus)

keyparty_checksum.pdf

oarc29_keyring.asc

oarc29_keyring.asc.sha256

oarc29_keyring.asc.sig

13:45 → 15:15 Joint OARC & CENTR-Tech Public Workshop: Day 2, Session 3

Convener: Ralph Dolmans (NLnet Labs)

DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS at Cambridge

DNS UDP replies using MAC address

TTLs in RFC8918 NSEC Aggressive Use

13:45 Message Digest for DNS Zones

"Message Digest for DNS Zones" is a new Internet Draft describing a protocol and DNS Resource Record used to provide a message digest over DNS zone data. Although DNSSEC signs individual RRsets that can be validated, it is not sufficient in general because zones may also contain unsigned data (delegations and glue). This protocol can verify all data in a zone file.

In this presentation I will explain the motivation for this feature, and describe the algorithm for computing a digest over zone data. I will furthermore discuss some proposals and tradeoffs for supporting incremental zone updates with zone digests. Using an implementation of zone digests I will provide benchmarks for the time required to digest and verify zones of different sizes, with and without incremental updates.

Speaker: Duane Wessels (Verisign)

OARC26-Wessels-Zone-Digest.pdf

14:15 DNS Flag day: A tale of two ccTLDs

In a cooperative effort, .CL and .NZ collected data about how many domains will be affected by the DNS Flag days changes on February 1st, 2019. We compare our results with ISC's efforts over the general TLD space and Alexa Top 1000 domains.

Speaker: Sebastian Castro (NZRS)

EDNS Flag Day - English version.pptx

EDNS Flag Day - OARC29.pdf

14:30 Estimating impact of the (E)DNS flag day

Major vendors of DNS software are going to remove workarounds for some types of EDNS non-compliance on February 1st, 2019. What impact can we expect?

In this talk we will look at EDNS compliance measurements on real TLD zones and evaluate the worst-case scenario.

Speaker: Petr Špaček (CZ.NIC)

edns.pdf

14:45 CNAME at apex?! experiments

Standard DNS does not allow CNAME records to coexist with other normal data, which is sometimes confusing for non-DNS experts who want to redirect one domain to the other, like example.com. -> example.net.

Various actors invented their own solution, be it ALIAS or ANAME RR types with non-standard backend software, and some others decided to just ignore the CNAME limitation in standards and put CNAME RR next to other data.

In this talk we will explore how real resolvers react to situation where CNAME RR and other data reside at the same node in DNS tree. Is the currently deployed code sufficient or do we need a new standard?

Speakers: Ondrej Sury (Internet Systems Consortium), Petr Špaček (CZ.NIC)

Aliasing in DNS.pdf

15:15 → 15:30 Joint OARC & CENTR-Tech Public Workshop: Lightning Talks

DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS at Cambridge

DNS UDP replies using MAC address

TTLs in RFC8918 NSEC Aggressive Use

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:35 OARC Members only: AGM

Convener: Duane Wessels (Verisign)

16:00 OARC AGM Opening

Speaker: Duane Wessels (Verisign)

16:10 OARC Treasurer's Report

Speaker: Jacques Latour (CIRA)

OARC 2017 Financial Statements

OARC29-Treasurers-report.pdf

16:30 OARC AGM Resolutions

Speakers: Duane Wessels (Verisign), Mr Keith Mitchell (DNS-OARC)

OARC 2017 AGM Minutes

OARC 2018 AGM Resolutions and Elections

OARC29-AGM.odp

OARC AGM Resolutions

17:15 OARC Board Elections

Speaker: Mr Keith Mitchell (DNS-OARC)

2018 Board Candidates

OARC AGM Proxy Form