DNS is sluggish - again...
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Quote from: Internet If you want performance use a dns server that is aimed for performance:
https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm
This tests thousands of dns servers for speed and reliability. And gives you your own personalised results.
Unfortunately that's some Windows thing and hence useless.
Getting massive lag tonight 
pings up to about 30ms to 50ms, time for a router session drop maybe?
pings up to about 30ms to 50ms, time for a router session drop maybe?
Quote from: purleigh @foxy - I've used GRC DNS benchmark many times on Linux using 'WinE'.
Just download, set to executable, and run (with WinE) - no problem.
I don't have WinE loaded as it's a rather huge - even before I try to run a typical mammoth Windows program.
If I absolutely need to run Windows, I can use a dual boot netbook with a minimal Windows partition on it.
I use Dropbox to sync files between the Desktop and Windows.
Obviously, Dropbox is treated as a totally insecure transport method!
Looking at the samknows data we can see an increase in latency and failed DNS lookups in the evening on DNS;
It does appear to be on telehouse gateways, so PTW, PTE, PTN & PTW unfortunately we can't split the samknows data this way, so the data averages out the whole network.
We've raised a problem(Ref:77297) and our networks team will look into this.
It does appear to be on telehouse gateways, so PTW, PTE, PTN & PTW unfortunately we can't split the samknows data this way, so the data averages out the whole network.
We've raised a problem(Ref:77297) and our networks team will look into this.
Have you tried turning the DNS servers off and on again, and upgrading to the latest version of the software? 
