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
It'd be weird that it's limited to specific outbound domains in that case.

>>minima+J5
domains load balanced across different servers in some overly complicated distributed topology with only one of them busted?

although seems unlikely it just happens to be the NYT.

>>lamont+X9
I don't think it's a problem with rotting infrastructure. Using curl those requests are quick, unless you pass user-agent from browser. 4.7s with firefox user-agent and 1.3s without it. Using twitter link to the same NYT article.

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