[AusNOG] Google DNS 8.8.8.8

[Phillip Grasso]

I recommend you NOT use 8.8.8.8 inside Australia.

[disclaimer I work at google, but this is my personal view]


On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:16 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,
> io Networks Pty Ltd.
> e. chris at ionetworks.com.au
> p. 1300 1 2 4 8 16
> m. 0410 747 765
> http://www.ionetworks.com.au
> In-house, Outsourced.
>
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