Dynamic peer-to-peer (P2P) solution to counter malicious higher Domain Name System (DNS) nameservers

Author

Abu-Amara, M. ; Azzedin, Farag ; Abdulhameed, Fahd A. ; Mahmoud, Ali ; Sqalli, M.H.

Author_Institution

Comput. Eng. Dept., King Fahd Univ. of Pet. & Miner., Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

fYear

2011

fDate

8-11 May 2011

Abstract

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a critical service in the Internet infrastructure which provides user-friendly name to Internet IP address mapping. The absence of the DNS has a severe impact on several Internet services such as email. To avoid an intentional blocking from a malicious higher name server, a dynamic round-robin peer-to-peer (P2P) solution that is built over the Chord protocol is proposed as a secondary path to resolve the DNS queries. An evaluation of the proposed solution based on load balancing, failure, timeout, and number of hops is also conducted through simulation experiments.

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; legislation; peer-to-peer computing; protocols; resource allocation; Chord protocol; DNS queries; Internet IP address mapping; domain name system; dynamic round robin peer to peer solution; load balancing; malicious higher name server; Computer crime; Internet; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Routing; Servers; Chord protocol; Intentional blocking; P2P; malicious nameserver; round-robin;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2011 24th Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Niagara Falls, ON

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9788-1

Electronic_ISBN

0840-7789

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2011.6030613

Filename

6030613