Print Email Facebook Twitter In rDNS We Trust Title In rDNS We Trust: Revisiting a Common Data-Source’s Reliability Author Fiebig, T. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology; University of California; Technical University of Berlin) Borgolte, Kevin (University of California) Hao, Shuang (University of Texas at Dallas) Kruegel, Christopher (University of California) Vigna, Giovanni (University of California) Feldmann, Anja (Technical University of Berlin; Max Planck Institut für Informatik) Contributor Beverly, Robert (editor) Smaragdakis, Georgios (editor) Feldmann, Anja (editor) Date 2018 Abstract Reverse DNS (rDNS) is regularly used as a data source in Internet measurement research. However, existing work is polarized on its reliability, and new techniques to collect active IPv6 datasets have not yet been sufficiently evaluated. In this paper, we investigate active and passive data collection and practical use aspects of rDNS datasets.We observe that the share of non-authoritatively answerable IPv4 rDNS queries reduced since earlier studies and IPv6 rDNS has less non-authoritatively answerable queries than IPv4 rDNS. Furthermore, we compare passively collected datasets with actively collected ones, and we show that they enable observing the same effects in rDNS data. While highlighting opportunities for future research, we find no immediate challenges to the use of rDNS as active and passive data-source for Internet measurement research. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ad2f1399-3ea7-4861-8cdb-2b8243e44ac5 DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76481-8_10 Publisher Springer ISBN 978-3-319-76480-1 Source Proceedings of International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement Event International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement, 2018-03-26 → 2018-03-27, Berlin, Germany Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 0302-9743, 10771 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2018 T. Fiebig, Kevin Borgolte, Shuang Hao, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna, Anja Feldmann Files PDF pam2018.pdf 2.08 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:ad2f1399-3ea7-4861-8cdb-2b8243e44ac5/datastream/OBJ/view