Comments on: New datacenter live: Amsterdam

By: AlexB

AlexB — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:40:01 +0000

David-

What do you do to load balance the DNS requests across the servers? I don’t see a load balancer in the list of equipment.

-AlexB

By: eric

eric — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:51:25 +0000

Used a script from http://www.manu-j.com/blog/opendns-alternative-google-dns-rocks/403/, changed it a bit into :

#!/bin/sh
#8.8.8.8=googledns, 208.67.222.222=opendns, 62.179.104.196=isp
for i in “lifehacker.com” “facebook.com” “manu-j.com” “reddit.com” “tb4.fr” “bbc.co.uk”
do
for j in “8.8.8.8″ “208.67.222.222″ “62.179.104.196″
do
echo $j $i `dig @$j $i | grep Query | awk -F “:” ‘{print $2}’`
done
done

Results are :

8.8.8.8 lifehacker.com 14 msec
208.67.222.222 lifehacker.com 10 msec
62.179.104.196 lifehacker.com 16 msec
8.8.8.8 facebook.com 14 msec
208.67.222.222 facebook.com 9 msec
62.179.104.196 facebook.com 25 msec
8.8.8.8 manu-j.com 23 msec
208.67.222.222 manu-j.com 10 msec
62.179.104.196 manu-j.com 28 msec
8.8.8.8 reddit.com 316 msec
208.67.222.222 reddit.com 29 msec
62.179.104.196 reddit.com 8 msec
8.8.8.8 tb4.fr 37 msec
208.67.222.222 tb4.fr 10 msec
62.179.104.196 tb4.fr 11 msec
8.8.8.8 bbc.co.uk 35 msec
208.67.222.222 bbc.co.uk 9 msec
62.179.104.196 bbc.co.uk 12 msec

Living in Amsterdam.

By: King

King — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:45:14 +0000

i hope there would be opendns servers in the philippines. we have many internet cafe’s here and business here so promote opendns here.

By: De Wet

De Wet — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:50:48 +0000

Oh may we please have one in South Africa. I don’t fully understand why but only few of the ISP’s make it possible to use opendns here, I am sure that a local server would help.

By: Jaco

Jaco — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:18:23 +0000

WOW, faster than lightning.
Bezig met het traceren van de route naar resolver1.opendns.com [208.67.222.222]
via maximaal 30 hops:

By: Belal

Belal — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:42:46 +0000

congrats with the new location! Welcome to my city Keep up the good work. Hope to see many bits and bytes flowing through the Amsterdam setup
thank’s u’r so kinde mane make beeter all time
go on to be N(1)

By: Collin

Collin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:59:18 +0000

Working Like a Charm
(Living some ware near the center of The Netherlands)
ISP: Online.nl (wanadoo.nl/Orange.nl)

ICMP Traceroute to 208.67.222.222 (208.67.222.222)
Hop 01: 192.###.###.### [Unknown]
Hop 02: 81.71.128.1 bras5-asd7.wadsl.wanadoo.nl
Hop 03: 194.134.187.74 G3-8.dr1-asd7.nl.euro.net
Hop 04: 194.134.161.12 10GE2-3.cr1-asd5.nl.euro.net
Hop 05: 194.134.161.11 PC15.er1-asd4.nl.euro.net
Hop 06: 195.69.144.88 peer1.rtr1.ams.opendns.com
Hop 07: 208.67.222.222 resolver1.opendns.com

ICMP Traceroute to 208.67.220.220 (208.67.220.220)
Hop 01: 192.###.###.### [Unknown]
Hop 02: 81.71.128.1 bras5-asd7.wadsl.wanadoo.nl
Hop 03: 194.134.187.74 G3-8.dr1-asd7.nl.euro.net
Hop 04: 194.134.161.12 10GE2-3.cr1-asd5.nl.euro.net
Hop 05: 194.134.161.11 PC15.er1-asd4.nl.euro.net
Hop 06: 195.69.144.88 peer1.rtr1.ams.opendns.com
Hop 07: 208.67.220.220 resolver2.opendns.com

By: Chris Slater-Walker

Chris Slater-Walker — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:03:29 +0000

Regarding all the comments about people being routed to London when Amsterdam is closer: there was a reasonable article in the latest Internet Protocol Journal about research into the effectiveness of Anycast, and it concluded that it is far from perfect at routing requests to the nearest data centre, although it may be the best thing we have at the moment. It seems to me that much may depend on peering arrangements across the Internet as well, such that “nearest” in network terms may sometimes not equate to geographical proximity.

By: hao

hao — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:23:13 +0000

That’s a great news! I hope you’ll have a data center here at Asia Pacific. I’m from the Philippines btw.

By: tcchuin

tcchuin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:03:50 +0000

i hope there’ll be a new server at asia or SEA