Comment on Saved 10 billion DNS queries per month by disabling DNS PrefetchingparentComments−ars15ySee my reply here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2306788He is creating thousands of unique subdomains, so nobody can cache anything.−drwxrwxrwt15yusername subdomains are a very popular feature with many websites, especially older ones. users like it too. there is nothing abusive about it. He cant scrap several years worth of links and throw everyone at www.example.com/username−ars15yAnd? Someone asked why the DNS wasn't caching and I explained.−andrewcooke15yWhy can't this be handled with DNS wildcards? Surely they would allow caching on the nearest server.
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See my reply here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2306788
He is creating thousands of unique subdomains, so nobody can cache anything.
username subdomains are a very popular feature with many websites, especially older ones. users like it too. there is nothing abusive about it. He cant scrap several years worth of links and throw everyone at www.example.com/username
And? Someone asked why the DNS wasn't caching and I explained.
Why can't this be handled with DNS wildcards? Surely they would allow caching on the nearest server.