[OT] RE: [ILUG] google DNS problems

[Paul Jakma]

why are you using a US proxy? use one of the european ones, much,
/much/ faster when you use the right one.

top level proxies are reading, reo, and valbonne, vbo. reading is a
hop or two closer to dublin, but tends to get heavy use. valbonne
tends to be faster (network permitting). dublin ones,
www-proxy.db{o,e}.cpqcorp.net, were just aliases for reading when i
was there. so use ->

www-proxy.vbo.cpqcorp.net

only disadvantage is that the european ones all seem to have a very
annoying filter on them, some of the american ones might not, eg palo
alto -> www-proxy.pa.{dec.com,cpqcorp.net}.

regards,

paulj

(copied to list for benefit of any other Q users lurking)

On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Brady, Padraig wrote:

> Thanks,
> 
> Hmm, my HTTP proxy server in the US
> gets the distributed.net IP address
> whereas the proxy server here in IE
> gets the correct address. Maybe the
> bad addresses are talking time to
> propagte though the DNS? Or maybe it's
> just an internal problem @ the US site.
> 
> Cheers,
> Padraig.