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DNS poisoning in Indonesia - deep dive

DNS blocking in Indonesia article was an introduction to DNS based censorship in Indonesia. This article will be a deep dive into the DNS censorship landscape in Indonesia based on a defined research methodology. This post covers: Overview of our large scale DNS research methodology Statistics on Indonesian DNS servers List of blocking IP addresses used by various ISPs in Indonesia Large scale DNS research methodology DNS servers To facilitate the research we have scanned the Indonesian IP space and collected the list of IP addresses responding to recursive DNS queries on port 53 UDP. We have collected over 10000 IP addresses. 6935 of them have been consistently responding to our queries. 474 of those have been classified as located outside of Indonesia based on geoip lookup during data post processing. In the end we have tested 6461 DNS servers. Test domains In the course of our research we have tested 9 public domain second level domains (SLDs). In addition we pre-fixed each domain