On 2013/01/04, at 12:05, John Kristoff wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 11:05:47 -0500
> Matthew Pounsett <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> A friend of mine at an ISP asked me recently whether I had any
>> suggestions for fingerprinting stub resolvers.  They've got pcaps
>> from the downstream side of their caching servers and are looking at
>> trying to pull more interesting statistics than query counts out of
>> them.  I didn't have any good suggestions, but it seems like an
>> interesting question to ask of one's name server.   Has anyone else
>> tackled this before?  Do tools exist?
> 
> I've not tried it in an automated way, but if you have pcaps of stub
> resolvers, that ought to tell you a good deal. 

Yeah.  I imagine he's got a fair bit of data there that could be sifted through 
given the time.  But, I think that coming up with reasonable fingerprints would 
require a lot of testing where the tester controls both sides of the 
connection.  It's one thing to try to categorize stubs from just their 
activity, but name them you'd have to know for certain what's on the other end. 

My impression is that he's hoping someone else has done this before and that 
there's a wheel out there already invented.  It sounds like that probably 
hasn't happened, though.


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