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> Amusingly, they also implement DNS-based throttling, as my roommate and I found out one evening. The solution is obvious, though not for non-techies. Just to
by function_seven 14y ago
> Amusingly, they also implement DNS-based throttling, as my roommate and I found out one evening. The solution is obvious, though not for non-techies.
Just to be clear, they're delaying the response time of their own DNS servers as a method of throttling?? If that's what you mean, it fails on several levels (use a different DNS, only works on first lookup, does nothing for large file downloads, etc.)
Please tell me I'm reading this wrong.
- chimeracoder 14y ago> If that's what you mean, it fails on several levels Yes, it's really pointless. > use a different DNS That's how we first realized that this is what was happening (we spent some time testing this out to confirm it). It's impossible to say for sure on our end, but it seemed that was the case (as opposed to their DNS servers simply being overloaded, for example). Amusingly, the trigger is downloading large files - we were downloading an Ubuntu ISO at the time (> 1 GB) that we first noticed this happening.
- rprasad 14y agoYou're not. When I was living in an unfortunate area of the country only served by Time Warner Cable, DNS lookup throttling was their sole means of capping heavy downloaders.