IPv6 resolvers

Wed Jan 4 20:33:10 UTC 2012

On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 09:00:26PM +0100, Seth Mos wrote:
> I was wondering if many people are seeing horrendous latency on the
> free Hurricane Electric resolvers?

Looks fine to me:

(neodymium:15:27)% dig @74.82.42.42 cnn.com. A

; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> @74.82.42.42 cnn.com. A
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 53277
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;cnn.com.			IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
cnn.com.		299	IN	A	157.166.226.26
cnn.com.		299	IN	A	157.166.255.19
cnn.com.		299	IN	A	157.166.255.18
cnn.com.		299	IN	A	157.166.226.25

;; Query time: 38 msec
;; SERVER: 74.82.42.42#53(74.82.42.42)
;; WHEN: Wed Jan  4 15:27:17 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 89

(neodymium:15:32)% dig @2001:470:20::2 cnn.com. A

; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> @2001:470:20::2 cnn.com. A
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41382
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;cnn.com.			IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
cnn.com.		295	IN	A	157.166.226.25
cnn.com.		295	IN	A	157.166.255.18
cnn.com.		295	IN	A	157.166.255.19
cnn.com.		295	IN	A	157.166.226.26

;; Query time: 20 msec
;; SERVER: 2001:470:20::2#53(2001:470:20::2)
;; WHEN: Wed Jan  4 15:32:27 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 89

That being said, keep in mind these are anycasted.  I'm using
216.66.22.2 [tserv13.ash1.ipv6.he.net] for IPv4 and 209.51.161.14
[tserv4.nyc4.ipv6.he.net] according to the A record returned by
whoami.akamai.net.  I might not be hitting the same server you are.

- Mark

-- 
Mark Kamichoff
prox at prolixium.com
http://www.prolixium.com/
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