PREFETCHing to overcome DNSSEC performance issue on large resolving platform

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

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Abstract

Todays' DNS resolving platforms have been designed for DNS with fast and light resolutions over the Internet. With signature checks and larger payload, experimental measurements [10] showed that DNSSEC resolutions require up to 4 times more CPU. While DNSSEC requires more CPU than DNS, this paper proposes PREFETCHX, an architecture that optimizes the use of CPU and thus avoids that resolving platforms increase their size for DNSSEC migration. Current resolving platforms IPXOR split the traffic between the nodes according to the IP addresses. Alternatively, PREFETCHX takes advantage of the FQDN's popularity distribution (Zipf), a layered cache and cache sharing mechanisms between the nodes and requires at least 4 times less nodes. Furthermore PREFETCHX does not impact the network infrastructure which eases its deployment. Then, defining X the number of prefetched FQDNs makes PREFETCHX highly scalable and flexible to different type of traffic.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2013
Pages694-703
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event12th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2013 - Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Duration: 16 Jul 201318 Jul 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2013

Conference

Conference12th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2013
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityMelbourne, VIC
Period16/07/1318/07/13

Keywords

  • Cache sharing
  • DHT
  • DNS
  • DNSSEC
  • Pastry

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