Real domain name has higher latency than DynDNS?

[Amos Shapira]

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?

Maybe DynDNS's DNS servers are faster to respond.

--Amos