A DNS message is encapsulated in the UDP packet, a UDP packet is encapsulated in the IP datagram and an IP datagram is encapsulated in the Ethernet II packet.
The total size of the overheads is 54 octets.
![[Overheads]](overheads.png)
Network traffice and DNS server's resource consumption
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