So the website is running very nicely on ~8 geographically distanced VMs for minimal latency with GeoDNS. Unfortunately the PowerDNS cluster with MySQL+GeoIP backends was not cutting it with 500+ms re

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Mbit/s 1.370 ms> Germany, Berlin (DNS:NET) 620.12 Mbit/s 753.41 Mbit/s 14.021 ms> Germany, Munich (InterNetX) 564.58 Mbit/s 600.10 Mbit/s 17.045 ms>

To use NAT64, all I need to do is changing the DNS settings in my server:

840.12 Mbit/s 1.370 ms Germany, Berlin (DNS:NET) 620.12 Mbit/s 753.41 Mbit/s 14.021 ms Germany, Munich (InterNetX) 564.58 Mbit/s 600.10 Mbit/s 17.045 ms Denmark, Copenh

The SSH client is configured to use key pairs so that I don't need to type passwords. I no longer add DNS entries for my boxes but I have ~/.ssh/config written so that I can get into a box by typing s

* Explain to the wife why there's a new DNS entry on the family domain.

If you noticed that our site was offline in the past week or so, we have completely migrated away from Cloudflare DNS/Proxy/Caching and replaced it with... Cloudflare (Magic Transit). The maxkvm.com s

https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Cloudflare::DNS

My Pihole 2nd dns has a uptime of 178 days(since I last did a proper update)

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I run a site that lets you do pings, traceroutes and DNS lookups from all around the world (https://dnstools.ws/), so the extra locations will be pretty useful for my use case! I just haven't had time

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1463.68 Mbit/s 18.054 ms Germany, Berlin (DNS:NET) 656.73 Mbit/s 1101.16 Mbit/s 29.178 ms Germany, Munich (InterNetX) 710.93 Mbit/s 1290.50 Mbit/s 5.915 ms Denmark, Copenh

...DNS hosted by Cloudflare.

Google domains, I like their DNS service.

Reverse DNS for IPv6 seems to have been fixed now.

This is accurate but remember DNS caches. The first lookup maybe be slow, after that you'll be talking to your ISP until TTL expires (and your browser caches as well).

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