https://stackonward.com/tags/dns/Recent content in DNS on StackOnwardHugoen-USFri, 11 Sep 2026 05:18:00 +0800https://stackonward.com/posts/domain-request-flow/Fri, 11 Sep 2026 05:18:00 +0800https://stackonward.com/posts/domain-request-flow/<p>What happens when you type a URL in the browser is a sequence of hops, not a round trip to one origin. The request usually travels through DNS, a TCP or QUIC connection, TLS, a CDN or reverse proxy, and only then the application. The HTML that comes back is not the end; the browser still fetches styles, scripts, fonts, and images. <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Getting_started/Web_standards/How_the_web_works" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MDN’s account of how the web works<span class="sr-only">(opens in a new tab)</span></a> lists DNS, the HTTP request, the server response, and the browser assembling the page as consecutive stages.</p>