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It’s been a long time coming, but we are now online and operational in London! We actually turned up our routing announcements about two days ago but I wanted to hold off on the blog post to make sure everything was stable. Some folks in the forums noticed we were online and beat me to the announcement. 
I’ve been using a server in Amsterdam, hosted by my friend Peter, to test how latency changed when London came online. It should be obvious, but the results are very good and show just how important it is for us to be online in Europe.
From Amsterdam to OpenDNS before London goes online:
bash$ ping 208.67.222.222
64 bytes from 208.67.222.222: icmp_seq=0 ttl=57 time=145.077 ms
64 bytes from 208.67.222.222: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=152.962 ms
From Amsterdam to OpenDNS after London goes online:
bash$ ping 208.67.222.222
64 bytes from 208.67.222.222: icmp_seq=0 ttl=58 time=9.814 ms
64 bytes from 208.67.222.222: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=9.528 ms
The ping test above is a measurement of how long it takes one “packet” of Internet data to reach another host on the Internet. Bringing London online dramatically increases our reliability, speed and performance for our European users. Additionally, it decreases load in New York and Washington DC providing a win for our users in the US as well. Finally, the more sites we have, the more reliable our network becomes and that is a win for everyone.
We are online in London thanks to the efforts of a few really superb technologists and friends. I’d like to thank James Rice for his on-site help as well as his excellent guidance and advice along with Nick Waterman who fixed a minor issue we were having with our IBM BladeCenter chassis. Nick did this on December 29th, when he could have been at home with family or out partying; we really appreciate it Nick. James and Nick run Jump Networks, a high-quality, technically-savvy service provider in London.
I’d also like to give a big thanks to Chris Orme and Philip Baker from Datahop, a metropolitan fiber network in London which provides all kinds of really convenient network services. Chris worked tirelessly to make sure we could be online with our transit provider, NTT Europe in a timely fashion. It’s hard work getting folks to do things during the holidays and Chris made sure it happened. Even more impressive, Philip spent time late at night with our routers and switches making sure they were in good shape to turn up a BGP session with NTT Europe. James, Nick, Chris and Philip all went way above and beyond the call of duty and we appreciate it. I highly recommend both Jump and Datahop to anyone looking for transit and colo in London. Thanks guys!
We’re proud to be in London and look forward to peering with networks currently connected to LoNAP, a growing peering point in London. We are also considering a peering session at LINX, one of the largest exchange points in the world.
Happy New Year from everyone here at OpenDNS and we’ll see you in 2007!
Daniel Aleksandersen
Oh, good one! Thanks for the new year’s eve present to all us Europeans!
posted on December 31st, 2006 at 2:28 pm
Shaun Healey
Awesome! My first day using OpenDNS and I must say wow! What an improvement in speed and safety in browsing , props to all you guys that work on this project its great
and even more great, London server is online on the first day im a user great!
Happy new year OpenDNS!
- Shaun H
posted on December 31st, 2006 at 10:43 pm
Daryl
Hey nice Job getting one in London, but how bout here in asia? im in the philippines by the way
posted on January 1st, 2007 at 12:23 am
Joachim
Again, Thank you very much.
All my best wishes for a happy new year!
posted on January 1st, 2007 at 3:02 am
David Ulevitch
Joachim, et al,
Thanks for the kind words!
posted on January 1st, 2007 at 3:06 am
Kaan
I think Turkey users are not routed to London,my ping times are still same.(about 160ms)
posted on January 1st, 2007 at 3:20 am
Chris Hockey
Thanks so much for this - brilliant job Chaps!
posted on January 1st, 2007 at 4:43 am
Aashish
Thanks ..
Wish you a very happy new year..
posted on January 1st, 2007 at 7:07 am
N00b
Quick question…do i have to change anything concerning my router settings to take advantage of this? (I’m in Scotland btw).
They’re currently:
Primary: 208.67.222.222
Secondary: 208.67.220.220
Cheers.
posted on January 1st, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Luca Lanzara
Guys, if the service in Europe, and personally in Italy, was great, now is amazing. Keep goin’!
posted on January 1st, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Mark Crosby
Well done guys! Much faster than NTL:Telewest/Blueyonder DNS!
posted on January 1st, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Paul Stamatiou
Nice to see OpenDNS making headlines and moving on in 2007. =)
posted on January 1st, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Tadej
Well finally -
, that’s really a great news for us Europeans, though it’s true that even as it was before (i.e. with only U.S.-based DNS servers), the DNS queries took about the same time as when using my own ISPs’ servers.
Regards, Tadej from Slovenia
posted on January 1st, 2007 at 1:14 pm
John
Time for some Asian servers!
posted on January 1st, 2007 at 2:05 pm
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posted on January 1st, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Paolo Gabrielli
Thank you from Italy for your present! We wish you all a *fantastic* 2K7!
(Now I have a fantastic 80ms!)
posted on January 1st, 2007 at 5:01 pm
JDPower
Great, thanks for finally getting the London server online.
posted on January 1st, 2007 at 7:30 pm
John Roberts
N00b (and others): use the same nameserver addresses anywhere in the world. For the technically inclined, this is anycast.
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Cheers.
posted on January 1st, 2007 at 7:52 pm
Sam Thompson
thank you openDNS!
posted on January 2nd, 2007 at 4:55 am
Peter Binderup
I must admit that I can’t fell any difference in speed - I still get 150+ ms
posted on January 2nd, 2007 at 4:59 am
Karl Viklund
Thanks you very much! have been waiting for this a long time. I just love OpenDNS. Keep the great work up. You are the best!
posted on January 2nd, 2007 at 6:51 am
Francisco
Thank you so much from south of Spain.
before London: latency 280ms
after London: latency 80ms
posted on January 2nd, 2007 at 7:00 am
Nick
Great to hear of the new server in London. My European counterparts are totally stoked! I hope to see more expansion in the future. Keep up the good work…I love your service!
posted on January 2nd, 2007 at 9:21 am
Manuzhai
This is great news, thanks! I’ll be sure to set the DNS servers to OpenDNS at every computer I support from now on (by the way, I’m getting 97ms from Amsterdam right now).
posted on January 3rd, 2007 at 2:04 am
Jason
Superb! Latency has gone from around 160ms to 7-8ms. It would be less, but it seems to be going via Amsterdam, annoyingly…
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posted on January 3rd, 2007 at 8:41 am
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posted on January 3rd, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Charles
Hi, not much improvement from South Africa… not your fault at all: our useless & evil monopoly has traffic going through Hong Kong for some reason (tracert shows this as one of the hops to 208.67.222.222: hkg-ip-dir-hongkong-pos-2-1.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.9.210] whereas to google.com it behaves: lon-ip-dir-telecity-pos-6-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.18.94]).
Is there any way (another nameserver address for instance) to force it to go to London?
I still think your service is awesome… Telkom just sucks!
Thanks.
posted on January 4th, 2007 at 3:31 am
willemijns
why your 2 servers is only in the same datacenter ?
posted on January 4th, 2007 at 6:38 am
John Roberts
Charles, no way to force the requests to London (or any other individual location), sorry.
willemijns, we have many more than 2 servers at each location. I think you mean why do both addresses resolve to the same location for individual requests.
The datacenters picked for each location are selected in part for their interconnections (peering, and peering fabrics). We achieve redundancy by having multiple locations around the world, rather than having multiple locations (datacenters) in each geographic location. We increase our scale, and reduce load even further on current locations, by adding more locations.
posted on January 4th, 2007 at 8:24 am
Richard
Fantastic.
A FREE service that is actuall useful and desirable. Now that it’s in London, even better.
posted on January 4th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Niko
This is great news! I finally decided to switch all our wireless users to use OpenDNS as well.
posted on January 4th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
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posted on January 7th, 2007 at 4:45 am
Ilgaz
I think Turkish IPs not routed to London too.
Ilgaz:~ ilgaz$ ping 208.67.222.222
PING 208.67.222.222 (208.67.222.222): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 208.67.222.222: icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=151.186 ms
Trace shows we are still hitting a BBN Planet IP
Ilgaz:~ ilgaz$ traceroute 208.67.222.222
traceroute to 208.67.222.222 (208.67.222.222), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 10.0.1.1 (10.0.1.1) 1.562 ms 0.623 ms 2.414 ms
2 10.0.1.1 (10.0.1.1) 9.372 ms 8.045 ms 5.986 ms
3 195.175.51.249 (195.175.51.249) 6.407 ms 22.078 ms 7.573 ms
4 acim160-gtepem160.ttnet.net.tr (195.175.7.18) 8.145 ms 8.647 ms 7.888 ms
5 acb_ebgp-acbm160.ttnet.net.tr (212.156.117.254) 8.388 ms 9.850 ms 8.058 ms
6 nyk-b2-link.telia.net (213.248.83.101) 143.069 ms 141.433 ms 140.825 ms
7 nyk-bb2-link.telia.net (213.248.83.229) 140.691 ms nyk-bb1-link.telia.net (213.248.83.225) 142.408 ms 140.912 ms
8 ash-bb1-link.telia.net (213.248.83.22) 153.871 ms ash-bb1-pos7-0-0-0.telia.net (213.248.80.138) 188.396 ms ash-bb1-link.telia.net (80.91.250.17) 197.938 ms
9 p16-1-2-2.r21.asbnva01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.8.97) 148.239 ms 148.469 ms 150.179 ms
10 xe-1-1.r04.asbnva01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.181) 150.024 ms 149.677 ms 148.199 ms
11 fa-0.freedom.asbnva01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.12.114) 153.150 ms 148.927 ms 149.851 ms
12 resolver1.opendns.com (208.67.222.222) 151.440 ms 149.713 ms 150.276 ms
This is same as before and I better repeat, still better performing than my 10 ms replying ISP
posted on January 7th, 2007 at 9:22 am
patrick
Love the openDNS services, and recommend it to all our users personally. Now europe is open we will even send an mail to our users to inform them about this great service.
posted on January 10th, 2007 at 6:10 am
Simon Zerafa
Hi,
Is there anyway to show if my DNS requests are coming from the London DNS servers or not?
Regards
Simon
posted on January 16th, 2007 at 8:58 am
Tadej
Simon, yes of course it is (i.e. a way to know which DNS servers your machine is using): just do/perform a traceroute, meaning that you need to open a so-called command-prompt/cmd.exe (that means if you’re using Windows OS) and type “tracert.exe 208.67.222.222″, then wait for it to finish, and that’s pretty much it.
Regards, Tadej from Slovenia
posted on January 16th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Raymond Cox
I would like to know when there will be a dns server in Asia or the southern hemisphere?
I live in Australia and presently using USA dns.
Sincerely
Raymond Cox
posted on February 15th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
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posted on April 5th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Martin Reading
Now using opendns over a wireless WAN in rural Ireland. Improved stability and improved speed. Thanks for the service.
posted on August 1st, 2007 at 7:56 am
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