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I've always been a fan of: 4.2.2.1 and I believe it has a family of DNS servers in a similar range. Has never let me down (whereas my ISP, Rogers, has done

• blasdel 16y ago
  I use Level3's DNS servers also, but they're also distributed with anycast routing and would likely suffer from the same interaction.
  • evgen 16y ago
    It is not the fact that they dns server is using anycast routing that is the problem, it is the fact that the dns provider does not have a widely distributed set of POPs. When you send out a dns query to google dns or opendns you are going to a small set of boxes, the anycast address will route you to the closest one in this set but it is unlikely that any of the POPs are actually close to you. Level3 has a widely distributed set of POPs and if you are going to use a dns service that is not provided by your ISP this is probably the one to use.
• deleted 16y ago
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