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[Quinn Wood <wood.quinn.s AT gmail.com>]

On 12/16/2012 11:42 AM, Brian Koontz wrote:
> 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.
It's very small, unless it's not very small. Then it's very large.

^ Only half joking. I've had connections that were barely used and DNS 
servers that were obviously struggling to keep up. e.g. 2 second name 
resolution but a few hundred KBps once the connection was made. I could 
have run a local caching nameserver for that reason but never did.

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