
Applications and Built-in Diagnostic Tools
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Time Consideration
If a fully qualified domain name cannot have its IP address resolved by the
local DNS, one or more additional servers must be queried. This means that
datagrams conveying address resolution information will flow over relatively
low-speed WAN connections for which the time delay then depends on the
operating rate of those connections and other activity flowing on each con-
nection, as well as the processing being performed by routers that form the
WAN. Because the DNS resolution process on a host results in the setting of
a timer, if too much time occurs during the resolution process, the ...