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0 pointsexikyut8y ago0 comments

Thanks for the honesty.

Question: I'm in Sydney, Australia, aka the home of the most expensive bandwidth/peering in the world, IIUC :)

When I initially pinged 9.9.9.9 (I read "Quad9" and, despite having _just_ woken up, make sense of the nice name) it didn't work. Okay...

And theennnn:

  $ ping 9.9.9.9
  PING 9.9.9.9 (9.9.9.9) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=5006 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=4006 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=3006 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=4 ttl=51 time=2007 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=6 ttl=52 time=155 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=7 ttl=52 time=154 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=8 ttl=52 time=154 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=9 ttl=52 time=157 ms

  [a bunch of skipped lines w/ 155ms avg, 252ms peak]

  ^C

  --- 9.9.9.9 ping statistics ---
  33 packets transmitted, 27 received, 18% packet loss, time 32027ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 154.626/655.770/5006.544/1264.522 ms, pipe 6

Ahahaha nope that's not going to work for my primary DNS server. Not at this point.

For reference:

  $ ping 8.8.8.8
  PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=6.92 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=7.22 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=7.17 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=56 time=6.69 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6 ttl=56 time=7.78 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=7 ttl=56 time=6.94 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=8 ttl=56 time=7.01 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=9 ttl=56 time=6.77 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=10 ttl=56 time=7.40 ms
  ^C
  --- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
  10 packets transmitted, 9 received, 10% packet loss, time 9010ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 6.695/7.105/7.788/0.318 ms

This is a very cool service though and I wish you the best (and hope you get enough resources thrown at you to make a real difference!).

Apparently someone else who tried to email you has found that your email address bounces. I'd like to keep in touch in case I can help with further testing. I also wonder if and how I could get further involved with this - global-scale networking is a very interesting performance optimization target, the kind of thing I find really interesting.

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lokedhs8y ago

From Singapore:

  $ ping 8.8.8.8
  PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=2.04 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=60 time=1.96 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=60 time=2.18 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=60 time=2.10 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=60 time=1.99 ms                                   
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6 ttl=60 time=1.97 ms                                   
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=7 ttl=60 time=2.18 ms                                   
                                                                                        
  --- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---                                                         
  7 packets transmitted, 7 received, 0% packet loss, time 6016ms                          
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.965/2.063/2.185/0.099 ms                                       
  $ ping 9.9.9.9
  PING 9.9.9.9 (9.9.9.9) 56(84) bytes of data.                                            
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=2.23 ms                                   
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=2 ttl=60 time=2.18 ms                                   
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=3 ttl=60 time=2.28 ms                                   
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=4 ttl=60 time=1.97 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=5 ttl=60 time=2.05 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=6 ttl=60 time=2.22 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=7 ttl=60 time=1.93 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=8 ttl=60 time=2.08 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=9 ttl=60 time=2.17 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=10 ttl=60 time=2.05 ms
  ^C
  --- 9.9.9.9 ping statistics ---
  10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9018ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.939/2.121/2.289/0.115 ms

It's possible that their APAC mirror is in Singapore.

josh648y ago

From Perth, Western Australia:

  $ ping 9.9.9.9 -c 10
  PING 9.9.9.9 (9.9.9.9): 56 data bytes
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=0 ttl=57 time=1.014 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=1.038 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=1.023 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=0.918 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=4 ttl=57 time=0.968 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=5 ttl=57 time=1.121 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=6 ttl=57 time=0.946 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=7 ttl=57 time=0.978 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=8 ttl=57 time=1.001 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=9 ttl=57 time=1.140 ms

  --- 9.9.9.9 ping statistics ---
  10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
  round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.918/1.015/1.140/0.067 ms

exikyutOP8y ago

Hmmmmmmm.

Glares at telstra what are you doing to my internet connection

(It's 11Mbps and I'm ~2.5km away from the exchange, so the line quality seems alright.)

psandersen8y ago

Melbourne here with ADSL2, seems to match Google...

  ~ ping 9.9.9.9

PING 9.9.9.9 (9.9.9.9): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=0 ttl=57 time=35.810 ms 64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=35.669 ms 64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=36.421 ms 64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=35.021 ms 64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=4 ttl=57 time=37.837 ms 64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=5 ttl=57 time=36.547 ms ^C --- 9.9.9.9 ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 35.021/36.217/37.837/0.882 ms ~ ping 8.8.8.8 PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=58 time=36.042 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=67.986 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=36.123 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=35.603 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=58 time=43.381 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=58 time=37.085 ms ^C --- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 35.603/42.703/67.986/11.614 ms

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