On May 17, 2005, at 1:01 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> No ... it won't normally be faster to use your ISP's DNS first ...
>
> You will ask it a question ... it will ask the main server ... then
> reply to you. If you ask yourself, it will cut out the middle man :)
i don't believe that's necessarily a correct deduction. cutting out
the middle man is not always good; if you ask your ISP's nameserver,
your ISP's nameserver will quite likely be able to supply you with
accurate cached information (especially if you're trying to resolve a
commonly used hostname), thus reducing the overall load on the root
servers. i doubt you'll see a significant difference, but you'll be
doing everyone else a favor.
-steve
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