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Old 06-01-2008, 00:50   #38
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Re: Open DNS and its benefits

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Originally Posted by dev View Post
dns has nothing to do with download speeds, as said previously it only matters with resolving the domain name and thats usually only done once per site so won't help in speeding up browing as once you visit the site, you have the IP cached locally
I personally don't think faster DNS will make much difference. While it will make some difference (particularly if a site uses content from a lot of different servers), each lookup only takes a few milliseconds, so you would be hard pushed to see much improvement.
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