DNS
DNS Performance and the Effectiveness of Caching
J. Jung, E. Sit, H. Balakrishnan, “DNS Performance and the Effectiveness of Caching,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, V. 10, N. 5, (October 2002). [PDF] Summary Hierarchical design and aggressive caching are considered to be the main two reasons behind the scalability of DNS. Both factors seek to reduce the load on the root servers at ...
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Development of the Domain Name System
P. Mockapetris, K. Dunlap, “Development of the Domain Name System,” ACM SIGCOMM Conference, 1988. [ACM] Summary The Domain Name System (DNS) was first proposed (circa 1982) to address the problems faced by the then existing HOSTS.TXT-based “host name to address” translation mechanism, which was suffering from scalability and distribution issues along with other problems common ...
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