but I am willing to sacrifice a few hundred ms to avoid the several seconds of frustration when typing 'gmail' into the firefox address bar gets me redirected to some stupid ass ISP specific SERPs page =D
The other alternative is to just run your own instance of bind (or dnscache if that's what you prefer). CDN content will usually perform better, but non-CDN content will often lose a few ms because you usually won't have very much in cache. As a bonus, you can perform some stupid LAN tricks.
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That may be true...
but I am willing to sacrifice a few hundred ms to avoid the several seconds of frustration when typing 'gmail' into the firefox address bar gets me redirected to some stupid ass ISP specific SERPs page =D
Do you have any idea how confused I was the first time that happened? An absolutely terrible user experience.
The other alternative is to just run your own instance of bind (or dnscache if that's what you prefer). CDN content will usually perform better, but non-CDN content will often lose a few ms because you usually won't have very much in cache. As a bonus, you can perform some stupid LAN tricks.