Re: [Doh] DNS over HTTP/3?

Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> Mon, 19 November 2018 15:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Doh] DNS over HTTP/3?
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, bert hubert wrote:

> I've also personally observed that a "slightly suboptimal" network 
> absolutely kills browsing performance in Firefox Nightly using DoH.  A naive 
> calculation shows that 0.5% packet loss turns into a 5% failure rate per DoH 
> query, which then can cause Head of Line blocking for further queries, which 
> cascades into "blank pages" getting rendered.

Isn't this mostly because it uses (multiplexing over) TCP and TLS? Meaning 
that DoT will basically see roughly the same degredation?

(And regarding "blank pages", that's also a matter of what the 
browser/user-agnes does or doesn't do when it gets DoH timeouts...)

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  / daniel.haxx.se