On 5/10/24 07:26, Chris via 44net wrote:
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.
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