Reply to post: Re: hang on

Chromium cleans up its act – and daily DNS root server queries drop by 60 billion

Cynic_999

Re: hang on

When you do a DNS lookup on the local DNS server, and the query is for a domain that the local server does not have cached (which will usually be the case when the query is in fact a search term and not a domain at all), then the local DNS server has to forward the query to the root server. So you are impacting on the traffic to both the local DNS server and the root server.

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