
Trufflehunter: A New Tool to Sniff Out DNS Usage
Audrey Randall
Based in San Diego, CA, USA
Audrey Randall is a PhD student at University of California San Diego studying Internet measurement and security. Her interests include privacy issues with DNS and the use of DNS as a measurement tool for Internet threats such as stalkerware. More
• 4 min read
Measuring domain usage on centralised public DNS resolvers can be very useful, but it's also pretty hard to do. Trufflehunter is a new open source tool that puts snooping techniques to good use in order to accurately estimate the popularity of domains.