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If you want to access this in a web browser, you still need some server which speaks HTTP and makes the DNS request and forwards the result to the browser. So y
by michaelmior 12y ago
If you want to access this in a web browser, you still need some server which speaks HTTP and makes the DNS request and forwards the result to the browser. So you're really not saving much there. In fact, you'll have higher latency since you now need HTTP plus an extra DNS request. Unless of course browsers support dns://...
- aidenn0 12y agoBut DNS is cached; to some degree you're getting a free CDN when you do this.
- michaelmior 12y agoNot really. Unless you have direct browser support for these DNS pages, you still need the proxy server close to your client to get the benefits of a CDN. Besides, the content is static, you could just dump that on a web server anyway.