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One problem I've found when trying to switch to an alternative DNS provider is that e.g. different parts of Akamai's CDN servers have different peering arrangem
by iggldiggl 5y ago
One problem I've found when trying to switch to an alternative DNS provider is that e.g. different parts of Akamai's CDN servers have different peering arrangement with ISPs and Akamai uses DNS for directing you to a server that is well-connected to your current ISP.
So when using an alternative DNS server, download speeds for anything hosted by Akamai would always slow to a crawl in the evening because I got directed to the wrong set of Akamai servers.
- tbyehl 5y agoChoose a public DNS that supports ECS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDNS_Client_Subnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDNS_Client_Subnet
- johnklos 5y ago...and Akamai compete with Cloudflare, so Cloudflare is not in any sort of rush to fix this... When you wonder about motivation, you don't have to go very far to see how this is obviously about money.