Title
Can Encrypted DNS Be Fast?
Abstract
In this paper, we study the performance of encrypted DNS protocols and conventional DNS from thousands of home networks in the United States, over one month in 2020. We perform these measurements from the homes of 2,693 participating panelists in the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Measuring Broadband America program. We found that clients do not have to trade DNS performance for privacy. For certain resolvers, DoT was able to perform faster than DNS in median response times, even as latency increased. We also found significant variation in DoH performance across recursive resolvers. Based on these results, we recommend that DNS clients (e.g., web browsers) should periodically conduct simple latency and response time measurements to determine which protocol and resolver a client should use. No single DNS protocol nor resolver performed the best for all clients.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/978-3-030-72582-2_26
PASSIVE AND ACTIVE MEASUREMENT, PAM 2021
Keywords
DocType
Volume
DNS, Privacy, Security, Performance
Conference
12671
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
1
0.36
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Austin Hounsel120.72
Paul Schmitt232.12
Kevin Borgolte3678.48
Nick Feamster44736390.57