Phokeer, AAina, AJohnson, David2017-06-072017-06-072016-12Phokeer, A., Aina, A. and Johnson, D. 2016. DNS Lame delegations: A case-study of public reverse DNS records in the African Region. AFRICOMM, 8th EAI International Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, 6-7 December 2016, Ouagadougou, Burkina Fasohttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/311675561_DNS_Lame_delegations_A_case-study_of_public_reverse_DNS_records_in_the_African_Regionhttps://afrinic.net/images/lame-delegation-africomm2016.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10204/9111AFRICOMM, 8th EAI International Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, 6-7 December 2016, Ouagadougou, Burkina FasoThe DNS, as one of the oldest components of the modern Internet, has been studied multiple times. It is a known fact that operational issues such as mis-configured name servers affect the responsiveness of the DNS service which could lead to delayed responses or failed queries. One of such misconfigurations is lame delegation and this article explains how it can be detected and also provides guidance to the African Internet community as to whether a policy lame reverse DNS should be enforced. It also gives an overview of the degree of lameness of the AFRINIC reverse domains where it was found that 45% of all reverse domains are lame.enReverse DNSMisconfigurationsLame delegationNon-authoritative nameserversConference PresentationPhokeer, A., Aina, A., & Johnson, D. (2016). DNS Lame delegations: A case-study of public reverse DNS records in the African Region. African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC). http://hdl.handle.net/10204/9111Phokeer, A, A Aina, and David Johnson. "DNS Lame delegations: A case-study of public reverse DNS records in the African Region." (2016): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/9111Phokeer A, Aina A, Johnson D, DNS Lame delegations: A case-study of public reverse DNS records in the African Region; African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC); 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/9111 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Phokeer, A AU - Aina, A AU - Johnson, David AB - The DNS, as one of the oldest components of the modern Internet, has been studied multiple times. It is a known fact that operational issues such as mis-configured name servers affect the responsiveness of the DNS service which could lead to delayed responses or failed queries. One of such misconfigurations is lame delegation and this article explains how it can be detected and also provides guidance to the African Internet community as to whether a policy lame reverse DNS should be enforced. It also gives an overview of the degree of lameness of the AFRINIC reverse domains where it was found that 45% of all reverse domains are lame. DA - 2016-12 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Reverse DNS KW - Misconfigurations KW - Lame delegation KW - Non-authoritative nameservers LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2016 T1 - DNS Lame delegations: A case-study of public reverse DNS records in the African Region TI - DNS Lame delegations: A case-study of public reverse DNS records in the African Region UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/9111 ER -