Interesting thing with DNS requests

[Ken Woodruff]

On Dec 6, 2006, at 3:31 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
Ru
> Fredrik Johansson wrote:
>> I thought there must be something quite wrong somewere, so I  
>> started to
>> watch the IO traffic through eth0 using wireshark. And the result was
>> very different on the DNS requests, the HTTP was about the same.
>>
>> konqueror:	656 DNS packets 		479 HTTP packets
>> Firefox:		42 DNS packets		442 HTTP packets
>>
>> ...
>
> Don't post a bug ticket about DNS problems there because I won't do
> anything about it. It's not a bug. DNS servers are supposed to reply
> fast.

How is requiring 15x as much data to do the same thing not a bug?   
Both apps running in the same environment implies that this has  
nothing to with the DNS server performance--the konqueror client must  
be issuing far more DNS requests than the Firefox client.

--Ken Woodruff
proposta at nwlink.com