ption-in-istio.png alt="Smart DNS proxying in Istio sidecar agent"></a></div><figcaption>Smart DNS proxying in Istio sidecar agent</figcaption></figure><p>As you will see in the following sections, <em>the DNS proxying feature
has had an enormous impact across many aspects of Istio.</em></p><h3 id=reduced-load-on-your-dns-servers-w-faster-resolution>Reduced load on your DNS servers w/ faster resolution</h3><p>The load on your cluster’s Kubernetes DNS server drops drastically as
almost all DNS queries are 