wow, I did not know that about llamas It's interesting, right? does anyone know what transits AWS uses? I wouldn't be surprised if it's different per region crap my isp has started lying about nxdomain that sucks TW at my new place does the same this I notice now because I'm trying to simplify my home net not run my own resolver etc do they block external port 53 no I can still go wherever i am surprised more isp's don't transparently proxy dns err i mean like capture port 53 traffic and force it to their nameservers running your own resolver is generally a bid idea bad at least for home use better than one that lies yeh maybe use 4.2.2.1/4.2.2.2 ? I am now (and my idiot access point reboots to change that for some reason) YER AN IDIOT mkb_ have you run the dns benchmark? some access points just proxy dns rather than caching and can actually be more efficient going direct there's a dns benchmark? not that it matters much other than benchmarks yeh i'm trying to remmeber the name I can believe that anyway all I see on google is some windows software it runs on linux and windows it's python command line on linux though some isp resolvers are so overloaded https://github.com/catap/namebench it's cos i used python to find it quicker that i got git first i think :) I'm limited by my cookie deletion you can enter your own, or it knows some public ones seems to defeat some of google's bubbling there's also google dns but I don't want to give in to the google empire google's dns can be weird here for where stuff comes from like it'll point to out of region akamai etc and yeh google is a bit scary now days it's a slightly bad test, as it tests alexa top domains, which public access name servers are more likely to query from arp opendns is fastest are all of your VPS kernel unlocked? kvm doesn't lock kernels gotcha, alright openvz is what seems to the biggest issue with kernels as it's not full virtualisation gotcha