from <http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2013-05/dnssec-performance.html>:

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So the overall result is that if you DNSSEC sign a domain today then some 70% 
of the received A queries will request DNSSEC additional information, and the 
traffic level in responses will rise by a factor of 4.5 over traffic levels for 
an unsigned domain. If every client used DNSSEC validating resolvers then the 
total traffic levels would increase by a factor of up to 13 over levels 
associated with an unsigned domain. Obviously, once more, caching of the DNSSEC 
zone values would have some impact on this number, and a more accurate working 
projection is that traffic volumes would increase by a factor of between 6 and 
13, depending on the zone’s key lifetime and query activity.

For the invalidly-signed domain name the traffic levels in the responses have 
increased by a factor of 5.5. When the DNSSEC-signatures cannot be validated 
the client will repeat the query on any alternate DNS resolvers that have been 
configured. One way to look at this is to compare it to the validly signed 
domain. DNSSEC-invalidity is observed to increase the total response traffic 
volume by 20%. But this condition is being encountered by at most 4% of 
clients. If every client was using resolvers that performed DNSSEC validation 
then the consequence of key expiration, or any other event that caused the 
signature information be become invalid, would increase the traffic levels by 
500%. In other words, the total traffic volume would be 6 times greater than 
that of a validly signed domain, or some 96 times higher than that of a validly 
signed domain, when using a single name server in the case where none of the 
responses are cached in DNS resolvers.

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Roland Dobbins <rdobb...@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com>

          Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.

                       -- John Milton

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