Quoting golinux@??? (golinux@???):

> With help from my Devuan friends the connection times have improved
> significantly. After little poking around and a very interesting
> talk with my ISP, I decided that the ISP's DNS resolver was
> contributing significantly to the slow connection times. A
> suggestion from a Devuan ninja, encouraged me install unbound.

Ding! Glad that works for you. (And, as other Dng regulars know, I am
a huge fan of doing exactly that.)

Yes, ISP recursive nameservers are very frequently awful as to
performance. Also as to security, privacy, and reliability, by the way.
Which is one of several reasons to try running a recursive DNS daemon of
your own, on your own side of the pipe, and use that in preference to
other people's recursive nameservers.