Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains

>>xslowz+(OP)
I can confirm. NYT shows a five-second redirect delay: "wget https://t.co/4fs609qwWt". It redirects to gov.uk immediately: "wget https://t.co/iigzas6QBx"

>>kens+71
It’s about 4.5 seconds for me

https://imgur.com/a/qege0O9

>>zagreb+03
Any DNS resolver libraries have a 4.5 second timeout? Maybe their infrastructure is just rotting.

>>lamont+65
glibc defaults to 5 sec, but the server wouldn't need to resolve the redirect domain -- that'd be the client's job. Unless it's doing so for some proprietary reason, of course.

Or did you mean failing to resolve some internal service's hostname?

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