DNS

2 DNS: Domain Name System DNS services Hostname to IP address translation Host aliasing – Canonical and alias names Mail server aliasing Load distribution – Replicated Web servers: set of IP addresses for one canonical name

3 Root DNS Servers` com DNS servers org DNS serversedu DNS servers fsu.edu DNS servers umass.edu DNS servers yahoo.com DNS servers amazon.com DNS servers pbs.org DNS servers Distributed, Hierarchical Database

4 DNS: Root name servers contacted by local name server that cannot resolve name root name server: – contacts authoritative name server if name mapping not known – gets mapping – returns mapping to local name server – root name servers worldwide b USC-ISI Marina del Rey, CA l ICANN Los Angeles, CA e NASA Mt View, CA f Internet Software C. Palo Alto, CA (and 17 other locations) i Autonomica, Stockholm (plus 3 other locations) k RIPE London (also Amsterdam, Frankfurt) m WIDE Tokyo a Verisign, Dulles, VA c Cogent, Herndon, VA (also Los Angeles) d U Maryland College Park, MD g US DoD Vienna, VA h ARL Aberdeen, MD j Verisign, ( 11 locations)

5 TLD and Authoritative Servers Top-level domain (TLD) servers: responsible for com, org, net, edu, etc, and all top-level country domains cn, ca, fr, jp, uk etc. – Network solutions maintains servers for com TLD – Educause for edu TLD Authoritative DNS servers: organization’s DNS servers, providing authoritative hostname to IP mappings for organization’s servers (e.g., Web and mail). – Can be maintained by organization or service provider

6 Local Name Server Each ISP (residential ISP, company, university) has one. – Also called “default name server” When a host makes a DNS query, query is sent to its local DNS server – Acts as a proxy, forwards query into hierarchy.

7 requesting host cis.poly.edu gaia.cs.umass.edu root DNS server local DNS server dns.poly.edu authoritative DNS server dns.cs.umass.edu 7 8 TLD DNS server Iterative Queries iterated query: contacted server replies with name of server to contact “I don’t know this name, but ask this server”

8 requesting host cis.poly.edu gaia.cs.umass.edu root DNS server local DNS server dns.poly.edu authoritative DNS server dns.cs.umass.edu 7 8 TLD DNS server 3 Recursive queries recursive query: puts burden of name resolution on contacted name server heavy load?

9 DNS: caching and updating records once (any) name server learns mapping, it caches mapping – cache entries timeout (disappear) after some time – TLD servers typically cached in local name servers Thus root name servers not often visited

10 DNS records DNS: distributed db storing resource records (RR) Type=NS – name is domain (e.g. foo.com) – value is IP address of authoritative name server for this domain RR format: (name, ttl, class, type, value) Type=A name is hostname value is IP address Type=CNAME name is alias name for some “canonical” (the real) name is really servereast.backup2.ibm.com value is canonical name Type=MX value is name of mail server associated with name

The dig command

Web and HTTP First some jargon Web page consists of objects Object can be HTML file, JPEG image, Java applet, audio file,… Web page consists of base HTML-file which includes several referenced objects Each object is addressable by a URL Example URL: host name path name

HTTP overview HTTP: hypertext transfer protocol Web’s application layer protocol client/server model – client: browser that requests, receives, “displays” Web objects – server: Web server sends objects in response to requests HTTP 1.0: RFC 1945 HTTP 1.1: RFC 2068 PC running Explorer Server running Apache Web server Mac running Navigator HTTP request HTTP response

HTTP overview (continued) Over TCP: client initiates TCP connection (creates socket) to server, port 80 server accepts TCP connection from client HTTP messages (application-layer protocol messages) exchanged between browser (HTTP client) and Web server (HTTP server) TCP connection closed

HTTP request message two types of HTTP messages: request, response HTTP request message: – ASCII (human-readable format) GET /somedir/page.html HTTP/1.1 Host: User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 Connection: close Accept-language:fr (extra carriage return, line feed) request line (GET, POST, HEAD commands) header lines Carriage return, line feed indicates end of message

HTTP request message: general format

HTTP response message HTTP/ OK Connection close Date: Thu, 06 Aug :00:15 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.0 (Unix) Last-Modified: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 …... Content-Length: 6821 Content-Type: text/html data data data data data... status line (protocol status code status phrase) header lines data, e.g., requested HTML file

Trying out HTTP (client side) for yourself 1. Telnet to your favorite Web server: Opens TCP connection to port 80 (default HTTP server port) at Anything typed in sent to port 80 at telnet Type in a GET HTTP request: GET index.html / HTTP/1.1 Host: By typing this in (hit carriage return twice), you send this minimal (but complete) GET request to HTTP server 3. Look at response message sent by HTTP server!

20 telnet 80 Trying Connected to ( ). Escape character is '^]'. GET /index.html /HTTP/1.1 Host: HTTP/ OK Date: Wed, 28 Nov :34:29 GMT Server: Apache/ (Scientific Linux) Last-Modified: Mon, 29 Aug :02:35 GMT ETag: "1defce0-29c5-4cd2a4c0" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO Computer Florida State University <meta NAME="description" CONTENT="Website for the Computer Science Department at Florida State University"> <meta NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Florida State University, Computer Science, Internet2, CS">

User-server state: cookies HTTP is stateless. – two requests are treated independently. – Why stateless? – What is the problem with a stateless http? E-commence: People buy things by making many requests. Need the ability to bind the requests from the same customer together. – Solution: cookies

Cookies: keeping “state” (cont.) client server usual http request msg usual http response + Set-cookie: 1678 usual http request msg cookie: 1678 usual http response msg usual http request msg cookie: 1678 usual http response msg cookie- specific action cookie- spectific action server creates ID 1678 for user entry in backend database access Cookie file amazon: 1678 ebay: 8734 Cookie file ebay: 8734 Cookie file amazon: 1678 ebay: 8734 one week later:

Cookies (continued) What cookies can bring: authorization shopping carts recommendations user session state (Web ) Cookies and privacy: cookies permit sites to learn a lot about you you may supply name and to sites search engines use redirection & cookies to learn yet more advertising companies obtain info across sites aside

Some issues in HTTP: Mainly due to its popularity – Cache support. Insufficient in http/1.0, improved in http/1.1 Intermediate nodes, encoding, etc – Dynamically generated date Not reliable in http/1.0 – Performance Persistent or non-persistent TCP connection Download the whole file or part of a file – User preference – Security

Content-Delivery Akamai. With 18,000 servers all around the world (in 2010). Most likely what happens when a request for a webpage, the original server will reply the text html file while asking Akamai servers to send the large files. Good for the clients, and good for the ISPs because it reduces the upstream traffic.

DNS Redirecting First time, the client needs to look up so it will get the DNS reply from the CDN DNS server. The CDN DNS server finds which server best serves this client and returns the ip address of this server, considering the network capacity, the network delay, and the network load. Akamai also has to consider where to put the servers.