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...Zhuoqing Morley Mao1
Zhuoqing Morley Mao (email: zmao@cs.berkeley.edu) is a Computer Science graduate student at University of California, Berkeley. This work was done during her internship at AT&T Research Labs.
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... Fred Douglis2
Current affiliation: IBM Research
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... identifier3
Our authoritative DNS server [6] allows host names to be wildcarded, so we can set an address for *.rd.example.com.
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... image.4
We tested with the default setting without any special options. Some older versions of both browsers were also tested giving the same behavior.
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... 112.74.197.1635
For privacy concerns, the IP addresses have been anonymized.
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... 7,8946
Only 7,894 of all associations can be reached from both probe sites 2 and 3.
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... them7
The main tradeoff here is fewer peering links traversed in multi-ISP CDNs versus less traffic between access and backbone routers as well as lower costs in single-ISP CDNs.
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... query.8
Note, for fault-tolerance, most CDN DNS servers usually return multiple IP addresses. In this case, we pick the first one, since clients also typically choose the first IP address.
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... locations9
In many cases, the router's DNS name has an indication of the geographic location [14].
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... metric.10
We were unable to include CDN Y in the traceroute experiment, since most of its CDN servers are unreachable using traceroute.
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