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most citedTransparent Forwarders: An Unnoticed Component of the Open DNS Infrastructure

21 citations · 25 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.LG2026

Contrastive Learning and Correlation Clustering for Sequences of Network Telescope Data

Jannik Presberger, Alexander Männel, Maynard Koch +3

Understanding activities of Internet scanners is challenging; it often requires identifying relationships between sources, a task for which semantic annotations are scarce. This wo…

cs.NI2025

Scanning the IPv6 Internet Using Subnet-Router Anycast Probing

Maynard Koch, Raphael Hiesgen, Marcin Nawrocki +2

Identifying active IPv6 addresses is challenging. Various methods emerged to master the measurement challenge in this huge address space, including hitlists, new probing techniques…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

Forward to Hell? On the Potentials of Misusing Transparent DNS Forwarders in Reflective Amplification Attacks

Maynard Koch, Florian Dolzmann, Thomas C. Schmidt +1

The DNS infrastructure is infamous for facilitating reflective amplification attacks. Various countermeasures such as server shielding, access control, rate limiting, and protocol…

cs.NI2025★ 3 cited

A Detailed Measurement View on IPv6 Scanners and Their Adaption to BGP Signals

Isabell Egloff, Raphael Hiesgen, Maynard Koch +2

Scanners are daily visitors of public IPv4 hosts. Scanning IPv6 nodes successfully is still a challenge, which an increasing crowd of actors tries to master. In this paper, we anal…

cs.NI2021★ 21 cited

Transparent Forwarders: An Unnoticed Component of the Open DNS Infrastructure

Marcin Nawrocki, Maynard Koch, Thomas C. Schmidt +1

In this paper, we revisit the open DNS (ODNS) infrastructure and, for the first time, systematically measure and analyze transparent forwarders, DNS components that transparently r…