Duane Wessels
Education
Bachelor of Science, Physics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Master of Science, Telecommunications, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
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Principal Engineer
Biography
Duane is Principal Engineer, DNS Research, with a focus on DNSSEC projects. He is responsible for collecting and analysing large amounts of data during the initial rollout of the signed root zone. He is working on Verisign’s DNSSEC interoperability lab and other DNSSEC tools for both internal and public use. He is also managing collaborative university research projects.
Prior to joining Verisign, Duane was the Director of the DNS Operations Analysis Research Centre (DNS-OARC). Duane enjoys attending various technical conferences and is a member of the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) Board of Directors.
Research
Journal and Magazine Articles
Authority server selection in DNS caching resolvers, ACM Computer Communication Review, April 2012
A Day at the Root of the Internet, ACM Computer Communication Review, 2008
Conference and Workshop Papers
Is Your Caching Resolver Polluting the Internet?, ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network Troubleshooting, 2004
Passive Monitoring of DNS Anomalies, Conference on Detection of Intrusion & Malware and Vulnerability Assessment, 2007
Wow, That's a Lot of Packets, Passive and Active Measurement Workshop (PAM), 2003
Measurements and Laboratory Simulations of the Upper DNS Hierarchy (2004), Passive and Active Measurement Workshop (PAM), 2004
Understanding and preparing for DNS evolution Traffic Monitoring and Analysis Workshop, 2010
Talks
Searching for Vulnerable DNSSEC RSA Keys NANOG 55, 2012
Using Long TTLs to Survive DNS Attacks, DNS-OARC Workshop, 2012
Evidence of Bitsquatting in COM/NET Queries NANOG 54, 2012
Tracking a DNS Reflection Attack, DNS-OARC Workshop, 2011
Observations on UDP Checksum Errors in DNS DNS-OARC Workshop, 2011
The Day The Root Got Signed, NANOG 50, 2010
A Tool for Visualising DNS Server Affinity DNS-OARC Workshop, 2010
DNSSEC Deployment in the Root Zone, NANOG 48, 2010
Packet Traces from a Simulated Signed Root DNS-OARC Workshop, 2009
Root Zone Augmentation Impact Analysis, NANOG 47, 2009
Studies on Root Zone Growth, DNS-OARC Workshop, 2009
DNSSEC, EDNS and TCP, NANOG 46, 2009
IPv4 Heatmaps, NANOG 41, 2007
Searching for DNS Cache Poisoners -- Lazy, Stupid, or Evil?, NANOG 36, 2006
Update on Anomalous DNS Behaviour, NANOG 29, 2003
Towards Lowering the Load on DNS Root Nameservers NANOG 26, 2002
Books
Squid: The Definitive Guide, O'Reilly and Associates, 2004
Web Caching, O'Reilly and Associates, 2001
Make Projects: Small Form Factor PCs, O'Reilly Media, 2006