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Feb 6, 2021 at 06:24
A patch to Chromium reduced global root DNS requests by 40%! https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/04/chromium_dns_traffic_drop/ It's also impressive how quickly users updated such that the global services saw a difference.
Chromium cleans up its act – and daily DNS root server queries drop by 60 billion
Chromium cleans up its act – and daily DNS root server queries drop by 60 billion
That’s a 41 per cent traffic relief for all concerned

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