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dnsamp

confirmedKubernetes · minikubeCluster & infrastructureJuly 8, 2026

the question

What does one external DNS lookup from a Kubernetes pod actually cost?

what came out

8 CoreDNS queries under the default ndots:5 -- 6 of them wasted cluster-domain NXDOMAINs, a 4x fan-out (from real CoreDNS logs). Both fixes -- a trailing-dot FQDN or dnsConfig ndots:1 -- cut it to 2. Real minikube, pre-registered, independently verified.

method & receipts

  • Result: confirmed
  • Pre-registered the prediction was written down and committed before the run.
  • Reproducible one script re-runs the whole thing from scratch.
  • Independently reviewed an adversarial review pass, kept in the repo.
  • Machine-readable claims every reported number, in a checkable file.
  • Tested — a correctness/benchmark suite ships alongside the code.

→ read the code and re-run it

github.com/v-code01/dnsamp