From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Mike N."  wrote in message
news:7levb2tal10j15o40idhvbv5e87dc7dp70{at}4ax.com...
>>I wonder how much the speed gain really means to a Joe Average - isn't the
>>DNS lookup only a very small amount of data? Granted, I don't know much
>>about this, but seems to me like it probably won't make much difference
>>one
>>way or another.
>
>  I would expect the speed difference (faster or slower) to be negligible
> to Joe Average.   The difference comes in if there really are the rumored
> 5+ seconds response time from some servers.   One idea with speed
> increases
> for centralized servers is that less popular domain names will come from
> cache, having previously been requested by the much larger population of
> users.  That could cut 1-4 seconds for that web page.

I've never seen such delays, that I could see as being from the DNS lookup.
When something's slow, it's usually the server serving the actual page
(everything loads very slow). I get the idea, but remain unconvinced of the
sales pitch.


Antti Kurenniemi

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