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?
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