On 2018-10-13 22:22, mett wrote:
> On 2018年10月14日 10:59:54 JST, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???>
> wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 05:30:56PM -0500, golinux@??? wrote:
>>> On 2018-10-13 09:05, Steve Litt wrote:
>>> > On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 14:21:19 -0500
>>> > golinux@??? wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Greetings everyone,
>>> > >
>>> > > Something funny is going on with my networking. It's taking a
>> very
>>> > > long time to resolve host IPs across all browsers. It's been
>>> > > happening for a week or two but I'm just now getting annoyed
>> enough
>>> > > to troubleshoot.
>>> >
>>> > Me too. I just noticed it about a month ago when I installed my own
>>> > Unbound resolver instead of just sending all queries to 8.8.8.8.
>>> >
>>> > Somebody later in this thread mentions that you shouldn't judge
>>> > resolution time by what the browser says. A few tests with dig and
>>> > nslookup tell me that with most domains I've never hit before (or
>> which
>>> > have expired since I hit them), resolution usually takes less than
>> a
>>> > second.
>>> >
>>> > In my case, I'm temporarily assuming that before installing my own
>>> > resolver I never noticed how much of slow browser loading was due
>> to
>>> > browser's inefficient dns operations.
>>> >
>>> > SteveT
>>> >
>>>
>>> I have some food for thought to share but first an update. A
>> technician
>>> came out today to check the line and setup. Line was clear and
>> strong.
>>> Switched the modem and now getting 256 down. But . . . internet is
>> still
>>> very slow to connect as verified by several of you. Once it gets to
>> where
>>> it's going, it is really fast. So here's my conclusion . . .
>>>
>>> I think we are finally seeing the effects of the demise of Net
>> Neutrality.
>>> Corporations are raking in a lot of money streaming videos to every
>>> imaginable device and the tech sites that I/we frequent are a low
>> priority.
>>> So we are being bumped to the slow lane. Aaron Swartz and others saw
>> this
>>> coming and it has finally arrived. Will be interesting to see just
>> how bad
>>> it's going to get . . .
>>
>> Have you tried timing connection time to sites that likely *are* in
>> the
>>
>> fast lane? Do we even now what they are?
>>
>> -- hendrik
>>
>>>
>>> HND
>>>
>>> golinux
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
> hi,
>
> a fast way if u re living in the EU would be to try a european site as
> net neutrality is still en vigueur there.
>
> if same phenomen there(net slow),
> then it s definitely smtg else.
>
> But personally i would try more troubleshooting first like :
> - ping all the gateways u found on ur
> traceroute results(starting w/ the nearest ur terminal)
> - try some options to traceroute or ping
> to get an answer even from the gateways
> that dont answer to icmp, like sending tcp or udp packets.
>
> hth
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>

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