Re: RFC 6471 and "listing the Internet" as a punishment

On 1/26/2012 10:27 AM, Douglas Otis wrote:
> To support touted performance feature, chrome aggressively resolves 
> links in advance.  This strategy makes chrome sensitive to DNS 
> performance.  Cache in their recursive resolvers is kept current ahead 
> of requests.  People addicted to speed.  ;^)

I might be being argumentative for it's own sake (sorry), but doesn't 
this make Chrome less sensitive to DNS performance rather than more 
sensitive?

With a browser that doesn't pre-cache DNS lookups, the user is aware of 
DNS latency every time they click a link and with every resource that 
the browser loads from a different domain. Conversely, with caching, in 
most cases pre-caching every link on a page will take longer than it 
takes the user to find a link and click on it even if the DNS cache is 
extremely slow.

Now I'd agree that faster DNS servers makes a noticeable difference when 
browsing since many websites load content from a dozen or more hostname, 
but I'd argue that Chrome's precaching makes it less sensitive to slow 
DNS queries.

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