DNS response time improvement

anton_latvia

• January 19, 2021 03:19

Good day community! I have came across the following issue. A customer complained, that our DNS servers are much slower comparing to another provider. We are serving our DNS zones from 2 DNS-ONLY small boxes (1 core, 2gb ram) and there's no load on them, but speed-test from

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • January 19, 2021 20:18

  Hey there! I moved this into one of our new forums areas mentioned here:

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  anton_latvia

  • January 20, 2021 07:13

  I see, then it must be related to the location of their test-server.. We were just trying to solve DNS-resolve delay, that most webpage speed-test benchmark systems show and which sometimes is pretty high and gives bad overall score. And I was hoping there is some way to do extra caching-for-speed on our side.

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • January 20, 2021 13:17

  Yeah, I'm thinking it's more a matter of distance than actual issues with the test. The DNS system itself performs caching with the TTL values present in the zones, but that isn't something that would happen on your server. Another user might comment here from their similar experience.

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