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Originally Posted by R Jones
putting in the IP address, instead of the url.
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What you are doing here is bypassing the DNS lookup phase (udp/53).
DNS has a default timeout of 2 seconds, and since the traffic is udp (connectionless) if the packet is 'lost' along the way there is no automatic re-submission.
If the DNS is busy (this takes a lot but it depends on which dns servers you have configured) you can easily wait up to 6 seconds for a dns response (an eternity!) or even get a page not found error in your browser (which tells you to refresh which effectively resubmits the dns request).
This has been a public service announcement by the geek-squad
