Georgia Tech: Networking & Telecommunications Group

DNS Performance Project

The logs in this directory were collected Jan-Mar, 2002. They were collected in 21+ different countries and terrritories, and were collected at different times of day and over a variety of connection technologies.

The logs were generated by a slightly modified BIND DNS server. The modification was simply to perform logging of additional details of the process of resolving a name beyond normal logging. It uses the BIND's standard logging mechanism.


Format

Each line begins with a date in DD-Mon-YYYY format, a timestamp in HH:MM:SS.SSS format at the granularity of milliseconds, and further information on the rest of the line. These fields of each line are space-delimited.

The portion of the line after the date and timestamp describes either an event --- tx or rx of a DNS query or response --- or adds additional information about a previous event. This portion of the line is delimited by the slash character ('/'). The first field gives the type of the line, and the rest of the fields give additional information. There are seven different line types, described in the next section.

  RQ                           received a request
  A          /name/rcode/id    sent an answer to the client
        ns_r_noerror = 0,       /* No error occurred. */
        ns_r_servfail = 2,      /* Server failure. */
        ns_r_nxdomain = 3,      /* Name error. */
  Q/ns_forw                    forwarded a request
  Q/ns_resp                    forwarded a request
  Q/retry                      forwarded a request
  Q/sysquery                   forwarded a request
  TYPE/1                       info about a response
  TYPE/12                      info about a response
  TYPE/2                       info about a response
  TYPE/5                       info about a response
  RESPFROMNS                   received a response
  CCH                          info about cached responses
  REMOVINGQ                    info about a query's status

Logs

  site.01.log.gz                                      1640 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:16:55 2002 
  site.02.log.gz                                      1654 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:16:56 2002 
  site.03.log.gz                                      1698 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:16:58 2002 
  site.04.log.gz                                      1640 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:16:59 2002 
  site.05.log.gz                                      1652 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:00 2002 
  site.06.log.gz                                      1661 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:02 2002 
  site.07.log.gz                                      1710 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:03 2002 
  site.08.log.gz                                      1666 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:05 2002 
  site.09.log.gz                                      1656 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:06 2002 
  site.10.log.gz                                      1632 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:07 2002 
  site.11.log.gz                                      1696 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:08 2002 
  site.12.log.gz                                      1644 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:10 2002 
  site.13.log.gz                                      1664 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:11 2002 
  site.14.log.gz                                      1617 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:12 2002 
  site.15.log.gz                                      1677 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:14 2002 
  site.16.log.gz                                      1661 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:15 2002 
  site.17.log.gz                                      1642 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:16 2002 
  site.18.log.gz                                      1671 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:18 2002 
  site.19.log.gz                                      1659 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:19 2002 
  site.20.log.gz                                      1663 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:20 2002 
  site.21.log.gz                                      1663 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:22 2002 
  site.22.log.gz                                      1654 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:24 2002 
  site.23.log.gz                                      1604 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:25 2002 
  site.24.log.gz                                      1701 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:26 2002 
  site.25.log.gz                                      1670 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:27 2002 
  site.26.log.gz                                      1666 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:29 2002 
  site.27.log.gz                                      1721 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:30 2002 
  site.28.log.gz                                      1661 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:32 2002 
  site.29.log.gz                                      1643 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:33 2002 
  site.30.log.gz                                      1651 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:35 2002 
  site.31.log.gz                                      1671 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:36 2002 
  site.32.log.gz                                      1681 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:38 2002 
  site.33.log.gz                                      1659 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:39 2002 
  site.34.log.gz                                      1655 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:40 2002 
  site.35.log.gz                                      1706 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:41 2002 
  site.36.log.gz                                      1638 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:42 2002 
  site.37.log.gz                                      1597 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:44 2002 
  site.38.log.gz                                      1622 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:45 2002 
  site.39.log.gz                                      1636 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:47 2002 
  site.40.log.gz                                      1635 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:48 2002 
  site.41.log.gz                                      1627 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:49 2002 
  site.42.log.gz                                      1784 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:51 2002 
  site.43.log.gz                                      1657 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:52 2002 
  site.44.log.gz                                      1685 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:53 2002 
  site.45.log.gz                                      1653 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:54 2002 
  site.46.log.gz                                      1647 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:56 2002 
  site.47.log.gz                                      1751 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:57 2002 
  site.48.log.gz                                      1703 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:17:59 2002 
  site.49.log.gz                                      1641 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:00 2002 
  site.50.log.gz                                      1627 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:02 2002 
  site.51.log.gz                                      1639 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:03 2002 
  site.52.log.gz                                      1625 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:04 2002 
  site.53.log.gz                                      1655 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:06 2002 
  site.54.log.gz                                      1645 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:07 2002 
  site.55.log.gz                                      1688 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:08 2002 
  site.56.log.gz                                      1646 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:09 2002 
  site.57.log.gz                                      1624 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:11 2002 
  site.58.log.gz                                      1641 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:12 2002 
  site.59.log.gz                                      1671 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:13 2002 
  site.60.log.gz                                      1716 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:15 2002 
  site.61.log.gz                                      1640 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:16 2002 
  site.62.log.gz                                      1646 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:17 2002 
  site.63.log.gz                                      1657 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:18 2002 
  site.64.log.gz                                      1613 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:20 2002 
  site.65.log.gz                                      1661 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:21 2002 
  site.66.log.gz                                      1636 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:23 2002 
  site.67.log.gz                                      1690 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:24 2002 
  site.68.log.gz                                      1643 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:26 2002 
  site.69.log.gz                                      1711 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:27 2002 
  site.70.log.gz                                      1679 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:28 2002 
  site.71.log.gz                                      1619 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:30 2002 
  site.72.log.gz                                      1644 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:31 2002 
  site.73.log.gz                                      1670 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:32 2002 
  site.74.log.gz                                      1674 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:34 2002 
  site.75.log.gz                                      1716 Kb    Sat Nov 16 16:18:35 2002 


For more information, write to Dr.Richard Liston: rliston at ursinus dot edu

Directory listing of /dnsperf

Directory listing of /dnsperf