[BNM] Sick of be broadband

[Tom Coady]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Tom Coady <tom at web-tart.co.uk> wrote:

> Cool - never thought of that. No brainer for Leopard:
>
> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050420025219402
>

Doh! Should have read the comments, like

> Mac OS X uses lookupd to cache all sorts of query results, including DNS
> results. The second time you request a web page, your mac will not initiate
> DNS requests that it did the first time. This is observable with tcpdump.

and

> To eliminate the browser as a source of slowness, you can download the raw
> HTML via a command-line tool that does all the things that a browser does -
> except it doesn't display the page and so issues of graphics and rendering
> speed are factored out. The 'curl' program is one such command-line tool
> that you can use.