On Thursday 23 Jul 2015 06:47:07 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 23/07/2015 05:49 πμ, walt wrote: > > Nope. Wrong. I just changed my resolv.conf back to the IP address of > > the router that ATT forced me to "upgrade" to and the delay is *gone*. > > > > The delay I was seeing was apparently caused by something very local to > > me, and suddenly vanished after two days. > > > > The interwebz is a scary place :( > > A friend of mine had a problem where half the time he tried to browse to > a URL, he would end up on a porn site. I thought it was some Windows > malware. But when booting from a USB stick with SysRescueCd on it, even > "ping google.com" would ping a porn site at first. > > His modem/router combo device was infected with something that hijacked > the DNS setting. He was using a DSL-Modem/router from 2003. > > It *is* a scary place.
Walt's previous test indicates that his ISP's DNS repeaters were congested, or under DoS attack. Setting temporarily a higher level peer could prove the point. Some top level DNS resolvers shared here (from a previous post in this list): http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110407_top_public_dns_resolvers_compared/ -- Regards, Mick
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