Real domain name has higher latency than DynDNS?

Real domain name has higher latency than DynDNS?

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Tue Oct 5 07:15:58 IST 2010


Hi Amos, Dotan,

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 02:33:07PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote:
> On 5 October 2010 07:51, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > An associate has a server in Germany with both a real example.eu
> > domain name (nameservers are on the server itself) and also a DynDNS
> > address pointed at one of the server's IP addresses. The latency to
> > the real example.eu domain is noticeably higher than that to the
> > DynDNS address, both in browsing the site and in pings (of course I
> > clear cache and whatnot). What could cause this? Might BIND on the
> > server not be configured well?
> 
> Have you tried to time the DNS queries?

That is, run

dig +trace example.eu

baurch

> Maybe DynDNS's DNS servers are faster to respond.

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