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Technical News & Discussion => Broadband, Internet & General Computer News & Discussion => Topic started by: Bill on Feb 19, 2014, 15:25:46

Title: DNS Resolvers
Post by: Bill on Feb 19, 2014, 15:25:46
Seeing the announcement about the new DNS resolvers (http://www.idnetters.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,31869.msg726958.html#msg726958), I ran the IPv6 test suite from here: http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/m=testv6

There's usually one or two amber items, of no serious concern, but this time it was completely green, thank you Simon :thumb:

But re the red stuff on the BQMs, and thinking about BT's claim somewhere that 3% packet loss wasn't a problem, the results of the above test included

QuoteNetwork performance (?): Latency: 100 ms, Loss: 1.5%

The round-trip time (RTT) between your computer and our server is 100 ms, which is good.
We recorded a packet loss of 1.5%. This loss rate is within the range commonly encountered and not usually inducing significant performance problems. All the packet loss appears to have occurred on the path from our server to your computer.

Interesting.
Title: Re: DNS Resolvers
Post by: Technical Ben on Feb 19, 2014, 16:08:43
Does that mean packets from your computer reaches them, but packets on the return do not?
Title: Re: DNS Resolvers
Post by: Bill on Feb 19, 2014, 16:14:39
I would assume so, but it's not very helpful either way- it's a long way from here to there :P