Freenom World – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver

Re:Freenom World – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver by kyrra on Friday January 13, 2017 @11:26AM (#13392055)

Google has the advantage to anycast their DNS server IP addresses. Use a ping service that will ping an IP from around the globe and you'll see that 8.8.8.8 has sub 20ms RTT time for pings reguardless of country. So you will likely always hit the closest Google datacenter when using 8.8.8.8.

80.80.80.80 seems to be served out of a single datacenter. Based on ping times I'm seeing, it looks like they are hosted in Amsterdam. So it will be slow for most of Asia and the Americas.

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Re:Freenom World – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver by corobo on Friday January 13, 2017 @12:04PM (#13392418)

For this same reason you'll also get better results from CDN services with Google DNS. 8.8.8.8 will lookup a geo record from (almost) your actual location. 80.80.80.80 will look it up from the USA.

Any CDNs that are using geo-dns will be way slower than they should be outside the US as you'll have been given a US IP to load the content from.

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Re:Freenom World – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver by manigandham on Saturday January 14, 2017 @02:28AM (#13397369)

Modern CDNs don't use DNS based routing. If a CDN is doing that then they're not really focused on being fast or reliable.

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Re:Freenom World – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver by sajal83 on Friday January 13, 2017 @11:05PM (#13396792)

Google actually implements a workaround to this issue.its called EDNS client subnet. Freenom does not.

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Re:Freenom World – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver by corobo on Saturday January 14, 2017 @05:14AM (#13397777)

Ah nice, I'll have to remember that one.

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Re:Freenom World – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver by mseebach on Friday January 13, 2017 @01:12PM (#13393031)

That's not some advantage randomly conferred onto Google, though. That's how you build a fast, global DNS service. Freenom is as fast as their servers allow in north western Europe (assuming they are indeed hosted in Amsterdam), but it's just not fast in the rest of the world.

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Re:Freenom World – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver by chris_wot on Friday January 13, 2017 @08:36PM (#13396301)

I've always wondered though if you could make a better, more anonymous naming service entirely. I believe GNU has one, I think IPFS has another.

These are, after all, just giving a more human understandable way of proving addressing information. On Unix and Unix-like systems there is a resolver, and I would be fascinated to know how hard it would be to literally swap out or choose an entirely new name-to-IP address resolution mechanism at runtime.

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Re:Freenom World – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver by the_duke on Friday January 13, 2017 @11:53AM (#13392331)

The website says they are using anycast as well.

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Re:Freenom World – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver by dsl on Friday January 13, 2017 @05:10PM (#13395205)

It looks like they are technically anycasting, but doing it totally wrong.

From multiple test locations I am seeing lots of network tromboning. Queries from the US going to Europe and vice versa.

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Re:Freenom World – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver by cs02rm0 on Friday January 13, 2017 @11:34AM (#13392151)

I'm getting <1ms from a server in Amsterdam, some hundreds (3-5) of ms from the UK, with some even timing out.

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