- Title
- Assessing the Impact of DNS Configuration on Low Bandwidth Networks
- Creator
- Okuthe, J A, Terzoli, Alfredo
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/430903
- Identifier
- vital:72726
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34896-9_6
- Description
- Domain name system (DNS) is an essential enabler for connecting us-ers and services on the Internet. DNS translates human readable do-main names into IP addresses and precedes client connection to a server via a domain name. DNS service is therefore expected to con-sume network bandwidth even though it offers no direct benefit to the user. Having observed the large component of DNS traffic on the com-munity network local loop in our previous study, we migrated the DNS service from a server on the LAN to the gateway router and reconfig-ured the cache time-to-live. Results from the analysis of network traffic captured from the gateway router interface show a 26% decrease in the downlink bandwidth utilization and 46% decline in the uplink bandwidth utilization. The DNS component of the local loop traffic reduces from 45.28% to 4.11%. On the other hand, the Web component of the local loop traffic increases from 49.42% to 95.49%. Data collected from a mirroring port on the LAN switch indicate a decrease in the DNS portion of the internal traffic from 0.38% to 0.18%. Although the DNS reconfigu-ration helps alleviate network bandwidth constraints and reduces DNS component of the traffic, the Web portion increases. The implementa-tion of effective, efficient and sustainable Web traffic management is therefore required.
- Format
- 9 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- International Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, Okuthe, J.A. and Terzoli, A., 2022, December. Assessing the Impact of DNS Configuration on Low Bandwidth Networks. In International Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries (pp. 76-86). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, International Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries volume 2022 number 1 76 86 2022 1867-8211
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SDG 09. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
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