aking-control-of-dns>Taking control of DNS</h2><p>All in all, DNS has been a thorny issue in Istio for a while. It was
time to slay the beast. We (the Istio networking team) decided to
tackle the problem once and for all in a way that is completely
transparent to you, the end user. Our first attempt involved utilizing
Envoy&rsquo;s DNS proxy. It turned out to be very unreliable, and
disappointing overall due to the general lack of sophistication in
the c-ares DNS library used by Envoy. Determined to solve t