[AusNOG] Google DNS 8.8.8.8

[Cooper Ry Lees]

Hi All,

In the US for me, always has been, so I have never used them.

On a side note I would reccomend GRC's (Steve Gibsons) DNS Benchmark
tool. Fully WINE compatible so I can even run it on my Mac's and *nix
to find the best DNS Server for the current connection. Would prefer a
native Mac / Linux version tho.

Pretty clever little app:
http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm

Podcast explaining how it works:
http://twit.tv/sn274

Cooper

On Wednesday, April 20, 2011, Yin To Chu <ytchu at iee.org> wrote:
> Perhaps, this might help.
> http://www.net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de/papers/AMSU-CDRW-10.pdf
>  <http://www.net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de/papers/AMSU-CDRW-10.pdf>Comparing DNS Resolvers in the Wild
>  <http://www.net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de/papers/AMSU-CDRW-10.pdf>-------
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> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Andrew Paternoster <Andrew at screwloose.com.au> wrote:
> We were having the same issue at a customers place. www.news.com.au was really slow. I think it has something to do with some load balancing providers like akamai.net. When you use the Google dns servers they think your in the US and give you as US mirror instead of a AUS mirror.
> I did a few tests and the after changing the DNS servers to the local ISP and clearing the DNS cache I got a ip from akamai.net that was local to Australia and a lot faster.
>  Thank youAndrew Paternoster
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>   From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Cameron Murray
> Sent: Wednesday, 20 April 2011 4:40 PM
> To: Angelo Giuffrida
> Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Google DNS 8.8.8.8
>  From memory when they were first released they both resolved to the US for me.
> Regards CameronOn Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Angelo Giuffrida <angelo.giuffrida at gmail.com> wrote:
> From what I remember, 8.8.8.8 never used to resolve back to Australia.  I remember distinctively that unlike google.com <http://google.com/> which has an Australian mirror (and resolves back to AUS through some routing black magic), their free DNS resolvers don't which was the reason why I didn't want to use them.
>  But I could be remembering wrong... :) Cheers,
>  Angelo Giuffrida
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 20/04/2011, at 4:23 PM, Christopher Pollock <chris at ionetworks.com.au> wrote:
> Hi all,  Just thought I'd share something I discovered today that might affect some of you.  Recently at home I've been having weird international speed issues (ISP is Internode) but only to certain locations. Speedtests and line sync were fine, some downloads great, others crawled.  Vimeo was unusably slow, the App store was barely usable.  Internode reported no issues.  Swapped routers, no change.
>  I finally nailed it down today - in a stroke of laziness I'd set 8.8.8.8 for the DHCP pool's DNS server.  Turns out, 8.8.8.8 doesn't seem to exist in Australia anymore.  I swear this used to be in Sydney, it was around 60ms away.  Wasn't it?  Now, from my home, every box I've got around Au and every Traceroute site I can find, it's showing up in California.
>  or-10mf.bne#traceroute 8.8.8.8
> Type escape sequence to abort.Tracing the route to 8.8.8.8
>    1 150.101.180.24 28 msec 28 msec 28 msec  2 150.101.180.50 24 msec 28 msec 28 msec
>   3 203.16.212.13 44 msec 44 msec 44 msec  4 72.14.223.1 48 msec 44 msec 44 msec
>   5 66.249.95.226 44 msec 44 msec    66.249.95.224 44 msec
>   6 209.85.249.52 148 msec 144 msec    66.249.95.166 196 msec
>   7 209.85.255.34 160 msec 148 msec 144 msec  8 209.85.255.39 180 msec
>     209.85.255.217 176 msec 176 msec  9 209.85.250.101 176 msec 176 msec 180 msec
>  10 209.85.241.154 176 msec    209.85.241.162 184 msec
>     209.85.241.154 192 msec 11 8.8.8.8 176 msec 176 msec 176 msec
> A geolocation of the last hop before it finds its target: http://www.ip2location.com/209.85.241.154 - defs in the US.  So Google's anycast DNS from the US is returning US-local mirror addresses for things instead of using Au CDNs.  And it's causing weird, per-destination slowness.  So that's the reason my 'net has been sporadically terrible this month.
>  Anyone else got anything from 8.8.8.8 in Australia?
>  --
> Christopher Pollock,
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