DNS performance and the effectiveness of caching

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 589-603

  Jung, Jaeyeon ^b   Sit, Emil ^b   Balakrishnan, Hari ^a,b   Morris, Robert ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caching; DNS; Internet; Measurement; Performance

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM; INTERNET LINKS;

CACHE MEMORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

INTERNET;

EID: 0036805563     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2002.803905     Document Type: Article

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