On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 01:25:09PM -0400, Bill Cole wrote: > From where I am, it looks like the Dyn server is answering fast. It's > the Microsoft server resolving the A record that is slow.
The "nameservers" (if one can call these barely able to speak DNS systems that) for mail.protection.outlook.com are particularly limited in their DNS support. - They don't support EDNS(0), so nameservers that haven't cached this fact will have to ask twice, first with EDNS(0), receiving a FORMERR response, and only then without. - They also (not relevant to the observed delay) don't hanle less common DNS query types correctly, returning NOTIMP, rather than NODATA or NXDOMAIN as appropriate. > # dig bcs-hants-sch-uk.mail.protection.outlook.com > > ;; Query time: 4359 msec That's impressively long, if you were querying from the moon (~2s RTT), this would be about right. -- Viktor.