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Record W4405244595 · doi:10.1002/spe.3396

Parsing Millions of DNS Records Per Second

2024· article· en· W4405244595 on OpenAlexafffund
Jeroen Koekkoek, Daniel Lemire

Bibliographic record

VenueSoftware Practice and Experience · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicIPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security
Canadian institutionsUniversité TÉLUQUniversité du Québec à Montréal
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsComputer scienceParsingDaemonSIMDParallel computingOperating systemProgramming language

Abstract

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ABSTRACT Objectives To enhance the throughput of DNS parsing by addressing the computational expense of processing large plain text DNS zone files. To specifically increase the speed of parsing DNS zone files compared to existing state‐of‐the‐art parsers. Method Development of a new approach named simdzone for DNS parsing. Utilization of data parallelism through Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) instructions available on modern processors to accelerate parsing operations. Result The simdzone approach significantly increased parsing speeds, being several times faster than the parsers in Knot DNS and NLnet Labs' Name Server Daemon (NSD). The software library developed from this approach was integrated into NSD, replacing its previous parser. Conclusion The implementation of SIMD‐based data parallelism in DNS parsing provides a substantial performance improvement, making it a viable solution for handling large DNS zone files more efficiently. This not only reduces processing time but also enhances the overall functionality of DNS services.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.038

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.003
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.007

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.265
Teacher spread0.254 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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