"I was using hosts file to block ads and found a significant increase in network latency" I ran in to a similar issue on Windows, which is described here: [1]

"I was using hosts file to block ads and found a significant increase in network latency" I ran in to a similar issue on Windows, which is described here: [1] After following that article's suggestion to disable the Windows "DNS Client" service name resolution returned to normal. [1] - https://tinyapps.org/blog/201809300700_large_hosts_file.html https://tinyapps.org/blog/201809300700_large_hosts_file.html