Title
Availability and effectiveness of root DNS servers: A long term study
Abstract
Domain Name Systems (DNS) servers provide a critical service to users and application on the internet. At the top of the DNS hierarchy is the Root DNS servers providing pointers to Top Level Domain servers on the Internet. Over the past years the number of Root DNS servers has grown to cope with the exponential growth of the Internet. This paper reports on the status and performance of the Root DNS servers gathered by the Gulliver's project SEIL probes which are deployed globally. This is the first effort to carry out long term study, from 2007 till 2009, on the performance of Root DNS servers. The data gathered shows the performance of anycast Root DNS servers in terms of Loss Rate and Query Response Time (QRT). Anycast servers' performance on the whole has been improving with more deployment of its instances, while unicast servers' performance has been roughly the same. We have correlated changes in the QRT to events that has occurred, eg. Cable breaks and deployment of a new anycast instance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/NOMS.2010.5488355
NOMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
unicast server performance,loss rate,top level domain server,network servers,dns hierarchy,gulliver project,internet,domain name system,anycast root dns server,query response time,performance,resilience of root dns,availability,web server,time measurement,unicast,servers,data gathering,exponential growth
Computer science,Domain Name System,Server,Computer network,Round-robin DNS,DNS root zone,DNS zone transfer,Unicast,Anycast,Distributed computing,The Internet
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1542-1201 E-ISBN : 978-1-4244-5367-2
978-1-4244-5367-2
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.51
3
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bu-Sung Lee12119140.18
Yu Shyang Tan2704.58
Yuji Sekiya3259.50
Atsushi Narishige4101.33
Susumu Date513328.14