On May 1, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Tony Finch <[email protected]> wrote: > Blair Trosper <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Goes all the way up to the A root server before failing spectacularly. > > That is an extremely weird response. Are you sure your queries are not > being intercepted by a middlebox? What happens if you use dig +vc ? > Do you get a similar round-trip time when pinging 8.8.8.8 to the one > reported by dig?
Some places like Wayport/attwifi intercept all udp/53 traffic and direct it to their local server. You won't notice this with a ping, but you will see it in the 0 or 1ms reply :) - Jared
