August Zajonc wrote:
> "Why would we want
> to use a heavily loaded system to query *before* we can begin to listen to
> our music"
>
> Of course, you'll probably have to use DNS to get the IP of the server
> serving the HTTP.
yes, except that with only a few HTTP servers the answer to the host IP query
is more likely to be cached on my providers DNS server than my music selection,
so I would expect it to be faster.
Of course, trying to predict performance in a caching system is difficult
without making assumptions about the domain of the queries. I agree with Alan,
again, though. Caching, in general, is good, and the DNS hands it out for free.
Brian
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