We would like to thank Kensuke Fukuda for joining us as a visiting scholar from September 2014 to January 2015. It was great having Fukuda-san join us from the National Institute of Informatics in Japan and share is interest in network measurement and DNS.
Watch here for details about the technical results of his visit. For now though, a photo of our going-away lunch with Kenuske, his family, and most of rest of the ANT lab taken in January 2015.
I would to thank Romello Goodman for his summer internship at ANT, as part of the USC SURE (Viterbi Summer Undergraduate Research Experience) program. Romello interned with us as part of his studies at Cal Lutheran (Thousand Oaks, California) where he is an undergraduate student in computer science.
Romello’s project was developing a reverse DNS crawler for IPv4 to provide bulk domain name data that feeds into other research projects such as our Internet census work. He explored several approaches and his code is running today crawling the whole Internet. We have used other sources of DNS data in the past–we look forward to his approaches providing a regularly updated dataset for evaluation.
We expect to make datasets from his research available in the future as they are completed. His software is currently available.
His research at ISI was jointly advised by Yuri Pradkin and John Heidemann.
After more than ten years of hand-coded, mostly-themed HTML, we’ve finally revamped our website with Jekyll and moved it to our own server at https://ant.isi.edu/. We love producing papers, software, and datasets, and we now finally automate the tedious task cross-referencing these across our pages. It also brings more consistent theming, and our server brings HTTPS for better privacy.
Thanks to Calvin Ardi for kicking this off, and to almost everyone in the group for pitching in to go over old pages.