Why, thank you
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Why, thank you
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Just because the ping time is lower (your provider's servers are within their own network, no third-party service can beat that) it doesn't mean they're actually faster or better - they could take more time to look up records and actually resolve names, or a small eternity for new entries to propagate. Issues like that are why people turn to these services in the first placeOriginally Posted by waffler
Besides, OpenDNS uses anycast routing, so even if the 208.67.*.* IPs are in the US, they're actually being routed to servers physically much closer to you (easily checkable by comparing traceroute results). Google I don't know, but considering they're Google the giant they probably do it as well.
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Yup, this is what I was talking about, thanks for clearing my doubts.Just because the ping time is lower (your provider's servers are within their own network, no third-party service can beat that) it doesn't mean they're actually faster or better - they could take more time to look up records and actually resolve names, or a small eternity for new entries to propagate. Issues like that are why people turn to these services in the first place
Yup, seems so, a tracert to 8.8.8.8 shows 14 ms. Thank you for the informationBesides, OpenDNS uses anycast routing, so even if the 208.67.*.* IPs are in the US, they're actually being routed to servers physically much closer to you (easily checkable by comparing traceroute results). Google I don't know, but considering they're Google the giant they probably do it as well.
Last edited by waffler; 01-22-2012 at 08:19 PM.
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Is there any news that BT would also be attacked by SOPA now since most file host has brought down to knees.
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