Development of the domain name system
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
Policy/mechanism separation in Hydra
SOSP '75 Proceedings of the fifth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
A case for caching file objects inside internetworks
SIGCOMM '93 Conference proceedings on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Database challenges in global information systems
SIGMOD '93 Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Scalable Internet resource discovery: research problems and approaches
Communications of the ACM
The case for persistent-connection HTTP
SIGCOMM '95 Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
DNS performance and the effectiveness of caching
IMW '01 Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Measurement
DNS performance and the effectiveness of caching
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Understanding BGP misconfiguration
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Diversity in DNS performance measures
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet measurment
Serving DNS Using a Peer-to-Peer Lookup Service
IPTPS '01 Revised Papers from the First International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems
Inferring relative popularity of internet applications by actively querying DNS caches
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
An overview of DNS-based server selections in content distribution networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Impact of configuration errors on DNS robustness
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
The design and implementation of a next generation name service for the internet
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Is your caching resolver polluting the internet?
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Availability, usage, and deployment characteristics of the domain name system
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The main name system: an exercise in centralized computing
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
The rising tide: DDoS from defective designs and defaults
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Rapid reverse DNS lookups for web servers
USITS'99 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems - Volume 2
A hierarchical internet object cache
ATEC '96 Proceedings of the 1996 annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Maintaining Strong Cache Consistency for the Domain Name System
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Variant Chinese Domain Name Resolution
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
A day at the root of the internet
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Impact of configuration errors on DNS robustness
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special issue on network infrastructure configuration
DNS measurements at the .CN TLD servers
FSKD'09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Fuzzy systems and knowledge discovery - Volume 7
LISP-TREE: a DNS hierarchy to support the lisp mapping system
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Authoritative server's impact on domain name system's performance and security
ICIC'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Intelligent computing: Part II
Investigating sequential patterns of DNS usage and its applications
ADMA'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Advanced data mining and applications: Part I
Monitoring the initial DNS behavior of malicious domains
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Tracking anomalous behaviors of name servers by mining DNS traffic
ISPA'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Frontiers of High Performance Computing and Networking
Research note: An empirical study of the characteristics of Internet traffic
Computer Communications
Touring DNS open houses for trends and configurations
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
An empirical reexamination of global DNS behavior
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 conference on SIGCOMM
Understanding the domain registration behavior of spammers
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conference
D-mystifying the D-root address change
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conference
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Over a million computers implement the Internet's Domain Name System of DNS, making it the world's most distributed database and the Internet's most significant source of wide-area RPC-like traffic. Last year, over eight percent of the packets and four percent of the bytes that traversed the NSFnet were due to DNS. We estimate that a third of this wide-area DNS traffic was destined to seven root name servers. This paper explores the performance of DNS based on two 24-hour traces of traffic destined to one of these root name servers. It considers the effectiveness of name caching and retransmission timeout calculation, shows how algorithms to increase DNS's resiliency lead to disastrous behavior when servers fail or when certain implementation faults are triggered, explains the paradoxically high fraction of wide-area DNS packets, and evaluates the impact of flaws in various implementations of DNS. It shows that negative caching would improve DNS performance only marginally in an internet of correctly implemented name servers. It concludes by calling for a fundamental change in the way we specify and implement future name servers and distributed applications.