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Re: Facebook more specific via Level3 ?


From: Max Tulyev <maxtul () netassist ua>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 16:20:20 +0300

Hi,

got the same from Kiev, Ukraine:

dig fbcdn.com
fbcdn.com.              300     IN      A       31.13.74.1
which is slow and routed through USA

and
dig fbcdn.com @8.8.8.8
fbcdn.com.              299     IN      A       31.13.93.3
which is fast and routed through Germany

Same is for IPv6.

Is there any solutions without dirty hacks?

On 22.03.17 12:02, Radu-Adrian Feurdean wrote:
Hi, the load-balancing definitely doesn't choose the *nearest* mirror.
We are in France and unless we do dirty tricks, we *always* get directed
to US sites (as far as LA), with horrible performance. Everything since
end of December. As a consequence we let the dirty tricks in place
(query facebook.com and fbcdn.com on 8.8.8.8 instead of regular
recursive resolving) and we get directed to Frankfurt or Amsterdam
(never London or Paris).



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