In this blogpost we outline OARC’s position regarding DNS-over-TLS, DNS-over-HTTPS and related technologies.

Mission

Ensuring that the DNS infrastructure and traffic is secure aligns well with OARC’s mission, and with DNSSEC now widely available to detect tampering with the integrity of DNS traffic, it’s clear the next effort should focus on protecting the privacy of DNS traffic against interception while in transit.

Role

Part of OARC’s role is to help bridge the gap between DNS protocol standards/development and actual operational practice, and we aim to support this process in the industry for encrypted DNS as we have for other new DNS technologies.

Support

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OARC 34 will be an online workshop and is planned to take place over the course of two days:

February 4th (16:00–21:00 UTC)
and
February 5th (16:00–18:00 UTC)

This will be around 4–6 hours of content / at least 8–12 presentations.

Registration is required to attend and participate in the Workshop. The link to register is on the Workshop website:

Workshop Website: OARC 34

OARC 34 Call for Presentations

The Workshop’s Programme Committee is seeking contributions from the community.

All DNS-related subjects and suggestions for discussion topics are welcome.

Based on the feedback from the previous workshop, the DNS-OARC audience is interested to see more…

OARC Software Engineer, Jerry Lundström is a regular author on the APNIC Blog. His latest posting on the blog explains DNSTAP — what it is, its architecture and the benefit of using it with OARC’s DSC (DNS Stats Collector) tool.

You may access the blog article here:

<DSC and DNSTAP allow you to monitor all the DNS>

DNS-OARC seeks to improve the security, stability and understanding of the Internet’s DNS infrastructure. This has resulted in a diverse, motivated and highly collaborative community, which has been able to work together cohesively on pertinent issues facing the DNS, the worth of which has been highlighted in recent years against the backdrop of the growing number of malicious incidents directed towards the DNS.
Read: Rallying a community to protect core Internet service.

Here are some DNS-OARC development highlights from the past couple of months. These updates are usually bi-monthly and previous ones are available on our Medium blog.

My last blog post was published on APNIC’s blog, if you missed it then please feel free to read up on how dsc-datatool and Grafana can give your DSC data a facelift.

Project: Soteria

This project was aimed at greatly improving the quality and testing of DNS-OARC’s software and tools, by using code coverage and code analysis, and was funded by The Swedish Internet Foundation.

SUCCESS!

The project was wrapped up in September after over 200…

The postponed (from May 2020) OARC 33 will be an online workshop and is scheduled to take place over the course of two days:

September 28th (13:00–18:00 UTC)
and
September 29th (13:00–15:00 UTC)

This will be around 4–6 hours of content / at least 8–12 presentations.

The OARC AGM (which will require separate registration) will take place on September 29th (16:00–18:00 UTC). Further details are on the AGM 2020 page and registration details will be emailed to Members and posted online in due course.

OARC 33 Call for Presentations

The Workshop’s Program Committee is seeking contributions from the community.

All DNS-related subjects are welcome, and…

Contents1. OARConline 32b at a glance
2. Archives
3. Tidbits
4. Patronage
5. How
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OARConline 32b at a glance

149 watched the webinar (175 Registered)
.. from 34 countries
.. representatives from at least 74 organisations
.. 22 (15%) were first time attendees at an OARC workshop
.. 116 from OARC Member organizations
.. 10 from OARC Supporter organizations
.. 147 max concurrent viewsThere were 5 Speakers and 4 Presentations

DNS-OARC’s second OARConline is coming up in two weeks on August 11th, starting at 13:00 UTC. It will last a couple of hours and we have five presentations lined up.

This will be followed by a post-Workshop Bring Your Own Drink social gathering over Zoom, so that we can all catch up.

As OARC is a non-profit organization and as OARConline 32b is free to attend for Members and Supporter Participants with a nominal fee of US$50 for others, we are open to sponsorship, patronage and donations.

Agenda

We are happy to announce that we have a full programme lined up.

DNS-OARC announces its second OARConline workshop!

OARConline 32b will be a 2 hours long workshop (13:00–15:00 UTC) and will take place on August 11th, 2020.

OARConline 32b Call for Presentations

The Workshop’s Program Committee is seeking contributions from the community.

All DNS-related subjects are welcome, and we remain interested in content which is timely and operationally relevant in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Suggestions for discussion topics are also very welcome.

As the session is limited to 2 hours we’d like to encourage brevity, presentations ought to be no longer than 20 minutes, not including time for questions.

Workshop Milestones

30 June 2020 :: Submissions…