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ripdog | 7 months ago

Well that's the experience I had. Obviously caching was enabled (unbound), but most DNS keepalive times are so short as to be fairly useless for a single user.

Even if a root server wasn't in the US, it will still be pretty slow for me. Europe is far worse. Most of Asia has bad paths to me, except for Japan and Singapore which are marginally better than the US. Maybe Aus has one...?

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janfoeh|7 months ago

According to [0], there is at least one in Auckland. No idea about the veracity of that site, though.

[0] https://dnswatch.com/dns-docs/root-server-locations

astrange|7 months ago

Cloudflare actually runs one of the root servers (https://blog.cloudflare.com/f-root/).

encom|7 months ago

>DNS keepalive times are so short as to be fairly useless

Incompetent admins. dnsmasq at least has an option to override it (--min-cache-ttl=<time>)