 Istio agent has
allowed us to implement cool optimizations such as <a href=https://coredns.io/plugins/autopath/>CoreDNS
auto-path</a> without the
correctness issues that CoreDNS currently faces.</p><p>To understand the impact of this optimization, lets take a simple DNS
lookup scenario, in a standard Kubernetes cluster without any custom
DNS setup for pods - i.e., with the default setting of <code>ndots:5</code> in <code>/etc/resolv.conf</code>.
When your application starts a DNS lookup for
<code>productpa