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The existence of the Domain Name Service (DNS) is a vital service for the Internet, being much more than a simple translation mechanism, allowing more high-profiled functionalities such as load-balancing or enhanced content distribution. With the current trend towards Cloud Computing, employing DNS as a Service (DNSaaS) in this paradigm contributes to the decentralisation of this service, improving its robustness and overall flexibility. In order to consider it multiple tenants must be supported among other advanced features, authentication of operations and support multiple DNS backends, providing an adequate interface as well (e.g., a RESTfull interface). While such characteristics seem promising, to the best of our knowledge this is the first paper to assess the performance of DNSaaS. The performed evaluation comprise a thorough set of experiments, demonstrating how the configuration of several simultaneous tenants can be supported, performing several operations, within acceptable response time. Moreover, by assessing the performance of the used DNS backend, results highlighted that the evaluated DNSaaS solution was able to support to \({\approx }36500\) DNS queries per second.
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This work was carried out with the support of the MobileCloud Networking project (FP7-ICT-318109) funded by the European Commission through the 7th ICT Framework Program.
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Sousa, B. et al. (2015). Towards a High Performance DNSaaS Deployment. In: Agüero, R., Zinner, T., Goleva, R., Timm-Giel, A., Tran-Gia, P. (eds) Mobile Networks and Management. MONAMI 2014. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 141. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16292-8_6
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