On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 00:51, Danny Mayer <[email protected]> wrote:
> No you don't want to do DNS over TCP if you can avoid it. It would be a
> major hit on the resolver servers and with the kind of high volume that
> you get as mobile devices make increasing use of such networks. You want
> WiFi to drop UDP packets if they are lost rather than attempting to
> retransmit them.

I do indeed, but UDP is treated as guaranteed by WiFi, and I expect
the reason is DNS over UDP otherwise becomes a user experience killer
due to extra seconds of wait for each loss.

Cheers,
Dave Hart
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