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[Brian Koontz <brian AT opennicproject.org>]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 01:30:57AM -0600, Quinn Wood wrote:
> On 12/15/2012 11:23 PM, Brian Koontz wrote:
> >Under "Total DNS Neutrality," you should delete "or the speed in
> >which they load" because in all truthfulness, DNS doesn't determine or
> >affect this.
> >
> Actually it does affect page load times, if you have to wait for an
> overburdened ISP DNS server to reply, you have to wait to access the
> page.

Not really.  The ratio between DNS resolution and page loading times
is rather small, and it's misleading to imply that alternative DNS
will speed up your surfing experience.

  --Brian

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