Dynamic round-robin peer-to-peer (P2P) domain name system (DNS)

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a critical service in the Internet infrastructure, and it provides user]friendly name to Internet IP address mapping services. The absence of the DNS has a severe impact on several Internet applications such as HTTP, FTP, and/or email that can cause such applications to become non-functional. To avoid an intentional blocking from higher name servers, a dynamic round]robin P2P solution that is built over 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. Furthermore, the effect of joining and leaving nodes is also considered in the study.