Overcoming DNSSEC performance issues with DHT-based architectures

  • Daniel Migault
  • , Stanislas Francfort
  • , Stephane Senecal
  • , Emmanuel Herbert
  • , Maryline Laurent

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Abstract

DNSSEC deployment for large Internet Service Provider (ISP) is an important issue. With the current architecture, the migration of current DNS resolving platforms requires 5 times more nodes. This paper introduces alternative architectures where the DNS traffic is split between the nodes of the platform according to the queried Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN), rather than the IP addresses of the queries. We show that such type of architecture requires up to 30% less nodes. However, this load balancing techniques results in a non-uniform distribution of the resources among the nodes of the platform. Furthermore, operational teams are reluctant to modify the existing load balancing infrastructure. Thus, we investigate how pro-active caching over a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) protocol, can optimize the resources of an ISP operational DNSSEC resolving platform. We find out that it can reduce the number of nodes by 3.5.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2013 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, IM 2013
Pages816-819
Number of pages4
Publication statusPublished - 10 Sept 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event2013 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, IM 2013 - Ghent, Belgium
Duration: 27 May 201331 May 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2013 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, IM 2013

Conference

Conference2013 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, IM 2013
Country/TerritoryBelgium
CityGhent
Period27/05/1331/05/13

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