The Domain Name System ● What it is to “Resolve”

In the telephone world we must know phone numbers. In the Internet world we use domain names which are much easier for humans to remember.

The concepts and issues with domain names themselves is reviewed elsewhere.

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Here we will review what our computers do to resolve domain names, how this process is used maliciously, and what are some alternatives.

We will first review some foundational concepts:

● Domain Names and IP Addresses

● Iterative Lookup

● Recursive Lookup

This is intended to be technically accurate but not technically detailed.

Traditionally the example is Alice wants to send a message to Bob, or Alice’s computer wants to sends a message to Bob’s computer.

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The Domain Name System ● What it is to “Resolve”

Domain Names and IP Addresses

Iterative Lookup ● Alice’s computer does it all

Recursive Lookup ● A server does it all

Hijacking a query

Tracking your queries

Secure DNS Server

DNS Filtering

Matryoshka DNS Server