[194386] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Facebook more specific via Level3 ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Max Tulyev)
Sun Apr 16 09:20:26 2017
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From: Max Tulyev <maxtul@netassist.ua>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 16:20:20 +0300
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Hi,
got the same from Kiev, Ukraine:
dig fbcdn.com
fbcdn.com. 300 IN A 31.13.74.1
which is slow and routed through USA
and
dig fbcdn.com @8.8.8.8
fbcdn.com. 299 IN A 31.13.93.3
which is fast and routed through Germany
Same is for IPv6.
Is there any solutions without dirty hacks?
On 22.03.17 12:02, Radu-Adrian Feurdean wrote:
> Hi, the load-balancing definitely doesn't choose the *nearest* mirror.
> We are in France and unless we do dirty tricks, we *always* get directed
> to US sites (as far as LA), with horrible performance. Everything since
> end of December. As a consequence we let the dirty tricks in place
> (query facebook.com and fbcdn.com on 8.8.8.8 instead of regular
> recursive resolving) and we get directed to Frankfurt or Amsterdam
> (never London or Paris).
>
