Re: Disappointment at DENIC over Poor Rating in .net Procedure

["Elmar K. Bins" <elmi () 4ever de>]

randy () psg com (Randy Bush) wrote:

> >     a.nic.de, 100 packets, 7% packet loss
> >     round-trip min/avg/max = 163.454/199.368/494.708 ms
> >
> >     c.de.net, 100 packets, 2% packet loss
> >     round-trip min/avg/max = 15.071/46.131/724.957 ms
> >
> >     z.nic.de, 100 packets, 3% packet loss
> >     round-trip min/avg/max = 180.9/222.723/578.468 ms
> >
> >     s.de.net, 100 packets, 0% packet loss
> >     round-trip min/avg/max = 184.26/219.786/501.547 ms
> >
> >     l.de.net, 100 packets, 1% packet loss
> >     round-trip min/avg/max = 170.435/211.573/568.7 ms
> >
> >     f.nic.de, 100 packets, 5% packet loss
> >     round-trip min/avg/max = 171.717/206.826/489.947 ms
> >
> > Overall for DENIC: 3% loss and 15ms / 166ms / 725ms min/avg/max latency.
> > c.de.net is the one I'd be using, and it gives 2% loss and 46ms latency.
>
> c.de.net is the one you WISH your resolver would use.  sometimes
> it might, others it might not.

Maybe Bill tunes his resolver.

Nonetheless, two things come to mind: why the heck have you gotten
such huge RTTs to z? I'd pretty much like to see your traceroute...

The other: ICMP has been rate-limited. It might not be the way to
test those locations. An mtr output would be more interesting :)

Elmar.