Development of the Domain Name System

The work

TitleDevelopment of the Domain Name System
AuthorsPaul V. Mockapetris; Kevin J. Dunlap
Typeconference paper
Year1988
Citekeymockapetris1988development

Where it appeared

Published inSymposium Proceedings on Communications Architectures and Protocols (SIGCOMM '88)
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages123--133

Identifiers

DOI10.1145/52324.52338

Abstract

The Domain Name System (DNS) provides name service for the DARPA Internet. It is one of the largest name services in operation today, serves a highly diverse community of hosts, users, and networks, and uses a unique combination of hierarchies, caching, and datagram access. This paper examines the ideas behind the initial design of the DNS in 1983, discusses the evolution of these ideas into the current implementations and usages, notes conspicuous surprises, successes and shortcomings, and attempts to predict its future evolution.

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@inproceedings{mockapetris1988development,
  title = {Development of the Domain Name System},
  author = {Paul V. Mockapetris and Kevin J. Dunlap},
  year = {1988},
  booktitle = {Symposium Proceedings on Communications Architectures and Protocols (SIGCOMM '88)},
  pages = {123--133},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  doi = {10.1145/52324.52338},
}

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