DNSTOP: STAY ON TOP OF YOUR DNS TRAFFIC

Publicity

dnstop was written in conjunction with our research into the large amounts of bogus traffic recieved by root DNS servers. It was originally presented in a talk at NANOG26. SDSC made a press release about the research, which led to a slashdot posting. We collected our favorite comments.

Kudos

Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:58:51 -0900
From: Royce Williams <royce@xxxxxx.net>

Consider this your notification that we have found dnstop to be useful and interesting. :)

This is an amazingly clear view into a previously murky world. We are very interested in additional tables and necessary/unnecessary query types. We are deploying dnstop on all email (FreeBSD) and DNS (Solaris) servers and have already been able to decrease and reorganize traffic because of it.

We support a 60K dial/DSL/email user base and use DNSBLs and reverse lookups heavily. Would love to volunteer to help test on our live systems at any time. Keep up the good work.

Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:18:37 -0600
From: Andy Deckowitz <andy@xxxxxxxxx.com>

... This looks like a great program, thanks!

Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:15:39 -0500 (EST)
From: William Stearns <wstearns@xxxxx.com>

Thanks for all your work on squid and dnstop - I really appreciate both tools.

Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 13:23:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Jose Nazario <jose@xxxxxx.org>

... thanks again, dnstop is pretty cool...

Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 09:02:22 +0100 (MET)
From: Peter Klingebiel - DVZ <Peter.Klingebiel@xx.xxxxxxxx.de>

thanks for your dnstop program, which I just compiled on Sun Solaris. It's a very useful tool.

Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 15:03:15 -0000
From: George Crook <gbc@xxxxxxxxxx.xx.uk>

Brilliant tool, I love it.

Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:09:56 -0800
From: Scott Kveton <kveton@xxxxxxxxxxx.edu>

I saw your talk yesterday at NANOG and really enjoyed it. [...] the tool works like a champ (and I've found some wordy dns servers on our network that shouldn't be there).

Thanx for the tool!