DNS Amplification Attacks
There has been a lot of talk recently about DNS amplification attacks (with prominent news reports of high bandwidth attacks targeted at anti-spam services, ...
I'm Shumon Huque, a software engineer and technologist. You can read more about me here.
Recent Posts
ISOC ION Panel - Advancing the Network
“I tend to think of IPv6 & DNSSEC both a little bit like global warming … something that is developing kind of slowly … they’re both inevitable, it’s a j...
Philadelphia Skyline Photos
My colleague Deke Kassabian posted an older photo of the Philly skyline (that I’d taken a number of years ago) on his Facebook page. So I thought I’d post a ...
Internet2 IPv6 Panel recap
A few notes from last month’s IPv6 deployment panel at the Fall Internet2 Member Meeting in Philadelphia, which I moderated (October 2nd 2012). Watch the ent...
DNSSEC and Certificates
DNSSEC is a system to verify the authenticity of DNS data using public key signatures. With increasing deployment of DNSSEC comes the possibility of applicat...
Stanford Linear Accelerator Tour
At the recent Joint Techs conference, our host Stanford University arranged a lunch time tour of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) for a small gr...
A Look at World IPv6 Launch Traffic
The World IPv6 Launch website has compiled a set of measurements at http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/. I’ll take a quick look at some of them here...
Network Engineer openings at Penn
We have two job openings at the University of Pennsylvania for Network Engineers.
A targeted survey of DNSSEC deployment
I’ve been working on a DNS and DNSSEC monitoring project, which is available at
IPv6 at Penn
World IPv6 Launch (June 6th 2012) is fast approaching, so I thought I’d share some details about IPv6 deployment at the University of Pennsylvania and what w...
Penn’s DNS Zone
Some data from a quick analysis of the contents of the University of Pennsylvania’s primary DNS zone (upenn.edu):
IPv6 and DNS Classes I’m Teaching
I’m teaching two half day classes on IPv6 and DNS/DNSSEC at the LOPSA PICC conference (Professional IT Community Conference), being held May 11-12, 2012 in N...
A Start
A colleague on her office door, has a picture of a famous New Yorker cartoon, in which one dog says to another, “I had my own blog for a while, but I decided...