Please be advised that DNS-OARC will be relocating its equipment and services to a new facility during next week starting this Saturday, May 14th through Wednesday the 18th. There will be multiple sporadic outages during this time affecting ALL services and ALL systems as a result.
ICANN's Root Server System Advisory Committee has recently defined two standards, including RSSAC 002 , designed to obtain a baseline of the metrics for the Root Zone, specifically so that root operators can detect and mitigate any abnormalities in the performance of the DNS Root Server System as it continues to grow and develop.
2023-06-01: This service has been deprecated in favor of Check My DNS.
Recent increases in DNSSEC deployment are exposing problems with DNS resolvers that cannot receive large responses. The maximim reply size between a DNS server and resolver may be limited by a number of factors:
This will be held in co-operation with the ccNSO Tech Day of the subsequent ICANN51 meeting.
There are a number of DNS Looking Glass sites around the Internet that will allow anyone to send a DNS query from that location. Looking Glasses are of particular use in the case of troubleshooting a problem with a DNS zone that is served from an anycasted service. In the event of a problem with the service, the view of a zone can be very different from distant places on the Internet. Here is a list of some of the known looking glass sites around the Internet:
DNS-OARC is pleased to announce we have received a substantial one-off equipment donation from a number of its Members in common with the the New TLD Applicant Group.
This is allowing these and other OARC members to perform independent analysis on OARC's Day in the Life of the Internet (DITL) data-set, to further understand the results of ICANN's " High-Risk Strings Collisions" study.