What DNS Is Not
David Andersen
dga at cs.cmu.edu
Mon Nov 9 00:42:18 UTC 2009
On Nov 8, 2009, at 7:30 PM, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 07:17:16PM -0500, David Andersen wrote:
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>> "Our trace-driven simulations yield two findings. First, reducing the
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>> -Dave
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> a simulation is driven from a mathmatical model, not real world
> constructions.
Hi, Bill -
The paper is worth reading.
"The paper also presents the results of trace-driven simulations that
explore the effect of varying TTLs and varying degrees of cache
sharing on DNS cache hit rates. "
emphasis on *trace-driven*. Now, you can argue whether or not their
traces are representative (whatever that means) -- they used client
DNS and TCP connection traces from MIT and KAIST, so it definitely has
a .edu bias, iff there is a bias in DNS traffic for universities vs.
"the real world", but to the extent that their traces represent what
other groups of users might see, their evaluation seems accurate.
-Dave
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