Re: NS geo-distribution

2013-05-01 Thread Lyle Giese
On 04/30/13 03:30, Dave Warren wrote: On 2013-04-30 00:49, Sten Carlsen wrote: Don't forget that most users will get the address out of "some" cache, not directly from the authoritative servers. Absolutely. This is even more true in our case as many of our clients are serve very local areas a

Re: NS geo-distribution

2013-05-01 Thread Tony Finch
Dave Warren wrote: > > With the vast majority of our customers being in North America (probably 75% > of users are in Canada), would it make sense to add a Europe based NS or would > this tend to return slower results on average since a potential user would > have a 1/3 chance of hitting a NS with

Re: NS geo-distribution

2013-04-30 Thread Sten Carlsen
On 30/04/13 10:30, Dave Warren wrote: > On 2013-04-30 00:49, Sten Carlsen wrote: >> Don't forget that most users will get the address out of "some" >> cache, not directly from the authoritative servers. > > Absolutely. This is even more true in our case as many of our clients > are serve very loca

Re: NS geo-distribution

2013-04-30 Thread Dave Warren
On 2013-04-30 00:49, Sten Carlsen wrote: Don't forget that most users will get the address out of "some" cache, not directly from the authoritative servers. Absolutely. This is even more true in our case as many of our clients are serve very local areas and 2-3 ISPs and 3-4 mobile providers p

Re: NS geo-distribution

2013-04-30 Thread Sten Carlsen
Don't forget that most users will get the address out of "some" cache, not directly from the authoritative servers. On 30/04/13 6:48, Chris Buxton wrote: > On Apr 29, 2013, at 9:01 PM, Dave Warren wrote: >> With the vast majority of our customers being in North America (probably 75% >> of users

Re: NS geo-distribution

2013-04-29 Thread Chris Buxton
On Apr 29, 2013, at 9:01 PM, Dave Warren wrote: > With the vast majority of our customers being in North America (probably 75% > of users are in Canada), would it make sense to add a Europe based NS or > would this tend to return slower results on average since a potential user > would have a 1

Re: NS geo-distribution

2013-04-29 Thread Dave Warren
On 2013-04-29 21:35, Gary L. Burnore wrote: I would contend that fast inititial page load times is achieved through blazing web servers and a wide data path. It sure doesn't hurt, but introducing ~200ms of DNS lookups sure won't make things any faster. -- Dave Warren http://www.hireahit.com/

RE: NS geo-distribution

2013-04-29 Thread Gary L. Burnore
> -Original Message- > From: bind-users-bounces+gburnore=netbasix@lists.isc.org > [mailto:bind-users-bounces+gburnore=netbasix@lists.isc.org] On > Behalf Of Dave Warren > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 12:02 AM > To: Bind Users Mailing List > Subject

NS geo-distribution

2013-04-29 Thread Dave Warren
Thoughts about how to best distribute NS servers hosting authoritative data for our zones? We currently host only about 300 zones so all zones live on all 3 servers but we're looking at replacing 1-2 of our NS servers due to reliability of the current servers. My thinking is to just pick three