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Originally Posted by Kushan
Uhhhh, not quite.
It's true that DNS only plays a very small (but extremely important) part in your download - by translating a domain name to a resolved IP address, however it can definitely affect your download speeds if it gives you a non-optimal geographical CDN endpoint.
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Again, DNS has no effect on your download
speeds.
Yes, it provides the IP address for the source, and yes, a few CDNs have multiple sources, but DNS plays no part in the actual download, it simply helps connect you.
I have no figures, but I doubt most internet sites are using multi-source CDN's.