10 May
2024
10 May
'24
9:43 p.m.
On 5/10/24 07:26, Chris via 44net wrote:
This may not be entirely true for streaming services, especially voip
telephony. While a phone or its server is looking up a host name in DNS,
there will likely be no audio heard on the connection. The connection
will appear to have gone dead or have a momentary dropout until the DNS
responds. And, the longer the delay in getting that DNS response, the
longer will be that dropout period of time.
For streaming video, you will get no dropout, but you will see a frame
freeze.
For typical tcp services, such as web, there will be a slightly longer
response time when changing pages. Of course, smtp will not show anything.
73, Mark, N2MH
So instead of
me leaving MDC and my packet hopping a trans-Atlantic
fiber cable to you, it makes a round trip to California first before
doing so.
I don't understand why this is a problem - a few more ms delay on a
reliable fibre network will not adversely affect DNS lookups.