Published

The Internet Protocol Journal has published my paper, Geographic Implications of DNS Distribution, which I've been obsessing over for the last year and a half. The abstract is as follows:

The domain name system, without which most Internet applications don't work, depends on reliable access to DNS information. Failure scenarios therefore exist where two Internet hosts may have connectivity to each other, but can't communicate because they lack a path to a DNS server in another location. A previous paper touched on this problem in the general case. This talk will look at the DNS in greater detail, and how the placement of DNS servers for various top level domains affects their reliability in different parts of the world.

It looks like they haven't posted an HTML version yet. Here is the PDF of the journal. My paper starts on page 12.

Since information on DNS deployment changes rapidly, I've also posted some updates to the data used in the paper.