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by anotherhue 868 days ago
I had this experience recently and realised I had crippled my day to day system with a slow DNS resolver. Suddenly everything was snappy.
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Yeah, slow DNS can look like a slow connection, but there are some subtle differences. images/elements will pop differently than if it's just a slow connection.

Had a wicked issue where a firewall was inspecting DNS requests and causing them to take almost 10 seconds to complete. Was hell on the SIP phones, and browsing the Internet was... Interesting.

Huh...may need to check.