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Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities
Paul Mockapetris
Replaces a single flat host table with a distributed, hierarchical namespace delegated across independently administered zones.
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Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities
Paul Mockapetris · 1987
Replaces a single flat host table with a distributed, hierarchical namespace delegated across independently administered zones.
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DNS Performance and the Effectiveness of Caching
Jaeyeon Jung, Emil Sit, Hari Balakrishnan & Robert Morris · 2001
Measures real DNS traffic to show that caching absorbs most load even with low time-to-live values, but that a small share of misbehaving clients…
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Domain Names - Implementation and Specification
Paul Mockapetris · 1987
Specifies the wire format, resolution algorithm and caching rules that let the naming scheme sketched alongside it actually be implemented…
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DNS Performance and the Effectiveness of Caching
Jaeyeon Jung, Emil Sit, Hari Balakrishnan & Robert Morris
Measures real DNS traffic to show that caching absorbs most load even with low time-to-live values, but that a small share of misbehaving clients generates a disproportionate share of failed lookups.
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Domain Names - Implementation and Specification
Paul Mockapetris
Specifies the wire format, resolution algorithm and caching rules that let the naming scheme sketched alongside it actually be implemented interoperably across independent networks.
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