CAIDA DNS Names

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Description

As a pair dataset to #144 we can also include DNS names. There are datasets for IPv4 and IPv6:

1. IPv4 Routed /24 DNS Names Dataset
2. The IPv6 DNS Names Dataset

Essentially CAIDA performs a reverse DNS lookup for all IPs seen in the traceroutes.

Note: For IPv4 this is only done for the routed /24 dataset, i.e., this might be a good motivation to choose this over the prefix probing dataset.

Modeling

(:HostName)-[:RESOLVES_TO]->(:IP)

reference_org: CAIDA
reference_name: caida.dns_names_v[4|6]

Open Questions

• We cannot map the HostName nodes to the rest of the DNS chain (DomainName, etc.). How useful are they?