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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Weird network issue - slow to resolve IPs
Le 14/10/2018 à 04:38, golinux@??? a écrit :
> On 2018-10-13 20:59, Hendrik Boom 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
>>
>
> Well, I picked a few names at random. netflix pops up as soon as I hit
> enter. Ditto Microsoft, outlook, Apple, twitter, instagram, reddit,
> snapchat and facebook. Redhat is in a slower lane as is the Linux
> Foundation.  Even Ubuntu takes a while.  But I don't get out much so
> maybe some of you know some popular destinations that I missed.
>
> It is incredibly annoying to be connected to a rather fast pipe yet
> have to travel on what feels like 56k connection to get to where I can
> benefit from it.
>
> golinux



    Hi Golinux.

    Did you try to list your favorite sites in /etc/hosts ? This is a
primitive and oldfashioned, but very simple, way to see if you hit a DNS
issue or are routed to a slow lane.

    Didier