On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Mark Andrews <[email protected]> wrote:

> Adding a SRV lookup should add 0ms if it isn't there as you should be
> making A, AAAA and SRV lookups in parallel.  Non-existance is as
> cachable as existance is.
>

But you have to wait until the SRV returns even if the A/AAAA response comes
back first, so there is a non-zero cost even with an optimal implementation.
 I am not arguing whether the cost is worth the benefits, only that there is
a cost in any case.

-- 
John A. Tamplin
Software Engineer (GWT), Google
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