do many folks use the ARP resolvers? I seem to get at least 500ms, sometimes worse, on non-cached queries. a bit painful, to say the least. pyvpx: I have them in /etc/resolv.conf but I can't replicate what you're seeing what do you get if you query the authoritative servers directly from your ARP machine? ";; Query time: 4 msec" ";; Query time: 6 msec" Yeah I'm not seeing extreme latencies either. (tested with a couple of non-existent records to a domain whose DNS is CloudFlare) Thanks again to ARP for their "serial" console enabling me to undo mistakes I've made :) Heh. Yes.