> For what it's worth, a highly scientific measurement from my house in > Berkeley, the authoritative location for all quantitative evaluation of > the Internet, using secret proprietary round-trip latency-measurement > tools... > > 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. randy
