Response time distributions for global name servers
Presented at the Passive and Active Measurement Workshop, 2002

Nevil Brownlee
IT Systems & Services - ITSS
The University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
and Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis - CAIDA
San Diego Supercomputer Center,
University of California, San Diego

Ilze Ziedins
IT Systems & Services - ITSS
The University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand

Our earlier measurements of global name server performance concentrated on response time measurements. In this paper we examine the shape of response time distributions. These distributions often show clear evidence of multipathing behaviour. We also report on improvements to NeTraMet's method of collecting data distributions.