utgg wrote: 
> What he is saying is that with the akamai CDN (the one we use for live
> streams because it is baked into the url in menu.opml) the time-to-live
> in DNS responses is often set to zero. This means that the local
> handling of DNS lookups in the OS, router and ISP DNS server or whatever
> (I don't know how this stuff works) must do a full external DNS lookup
> through to the akamai DNS server for every HLS HTTP request rather than
> using a cached address. So for every HLS chunk and playlist update
> request (these both happen for every chunk on average - every 6.4
> seconds with live streams), a full DNS request and response is required
> before the HTTP GET request can be made.
Would switching to limelight make any difference?



LMS Version: 7.9
TranquilPC T2-WHS-A3 - WHS 2011
2x Touch, 3x SB3
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