Re: What DNS Is Not

On Nov 8, 2009, at 4:59 PM, David Andersen wrote:

Z. M. Mao, C. D. Cranor, F. Douglis, and M. Rabinovich. A Precise and Efficient Evaluation of the Proximity between Web Clients and their Local DNS Servers. In Proc. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Berkeley, CA, June 2002.

Given that paper is 7 years old and the Internet has changed a bit since 2002 (and the DNS looks to change somewhat drastically in the relatively near future) it might be dangerous to rely too much on their results. This might be an interesting area of additional research... Regards, -drc