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1. It is slow but it works!

TCP/IP was design to operate over wide area networks as well a smaller ones. On large networks, you may from time to time encounter long delays. This is a normal (annoying sometime) conditition and the IP protocols are ready to cope with this. A bad DNS or broken network connectivity making the DNS unreachable will cause all kinds of delays (several seconds). Fortunatly (or unfortunatly), quite often a backup facility exists (a second DNS entry for one) and after some timeout, the system goes on.

Unfortunatly, this often hides the real problem and slowness is attributed to the wrong reason. It is attributed to the Internet which is overloaded, or the ISP which is selling too much.


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