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Internet service disruption is at best an inconvenience and at worst devastating for many businesses, governments and individuals. Small Island Developing States (SIDS), which are particularly vulnerable to natural disasters, often enjoy the least resilient network architectures and suffer the longest periods of disruption when service is most needed. As authoritative Domain Name System (DNS) servers generally lie off-island, the failure of international access links cripples local service availability, even when domestic links are physically operational. This paper proposes a simple monitoring strategy to reduce the impact of infrastructure losses in such circumstances. It examines the probability that local hosts are unreachable due to unavailable DNS mapping data gathered over a monitoring period and reports on a complementary strategy, and associated platform, to manually capture missing mappings. Together these mechanisms generate a set of local DNS mappings that enable SIDS’ Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) to perform intra-island routing independent of external DNS servers.
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Hosein, P., Ramoudith, S., Mallalieu, K. (2019). On Internet Resilience in Small Island States. In: El Yacoubi, S., Bagnoli, F., Pacini, G. (eds) Internet Science. INSCI 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11938. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34770-3_7
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