On the viability and performance of DNS

5th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications, ICITA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 560-566

  Van Leijenhorst, Tom ^a   Chin, Kwan Wu ^a   Lowe, Darryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Covert Channels; DNS; Domain Name System; Tunneling

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTING POLICY; COMMUNICATION SESSIONS; COVERT CHANNELS; DNS; DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM; NETWORK COVERT CHANNEL; TUNNELING; WORST CASE;

INTERNET; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION); TUNNELS;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 67649201166     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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