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DNS requests don't need to be serial, blocking load, its easy to issue a burst of them at once. Virtually every user agent is already doing this I don't see the
by throwaway2048 7y ago
DNS requests don't need to be serial, blocking load, its easy to issue a burst of them at once. Virtually every user agent is already doing this I don't see the downside of that.
Not sure why you feel there is arbitrarily "too many", do you have a concrete objection?
- regecks 7y agoExtra queries are a gamble that you don't encounter latency on any of the important ones, right? For example, on mobile data when you're hitting packet loss. I'm not so fussed about extra queries when they do not delay the user. But if we send out a RDBD query that a resolver doesn't respond to in a speedy manner, what does the user-agent do if it needs to decide how to scope a cookie? You can't exactly soft-fail something like that ...