internet without dns tennis play [closed]

Posted by Curious on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Curious
Published on 2012-06-07T16:43:35Z Indexed on 2012/06/07 22:42 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 164

Filed under:

Why do we make DNS requests separately when an ISP could also be handling the DNS request along with HTTP data simultaneously.

So rather than:

  1. Ask opendns what yahoos address is.
  2. Opendns returns: 66.55.44.11
  3. Hey, Verizon. Send/Request data from 66.55.44.11.

Why wouldn't the protocol just request data from "yahoo.com" and verizon interprets the yahoo.com as a split DNS request. This would lower latency for sure as it cuts out the time required for the dns server to call back the IP to then be sent AGAIN when it could just be handling the entire request theoretically.

Couldn't this be managed via a host file change on the client side and make compatible servers?? So much like a proxy.

© Server Fault or respective owner

Related posts about dns