I think at this point we should continue this in a new thread: https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/82652/rage4-dns-counts-inflated-queries

Seems to be the common knowledge now that Rage4 DNS query count seems odd. Rage4 claims this is not the case and tells us they checked this many times, mostly blaming bots and Google's open DNS.

I'm glad you wrote some proper code, I just threw something together, however your test is incorrect. That's why I was avoiding any DNS libraries and clients. Your DNS client is the one doing caching

3) Support - I hardly ever need support. But the 2 times I have, I was able to chat with someone in minutes that actually knew what they were doing (which I define as understanding how DNS works when

Rage 4 DNS Configuration:

I've have had a similar issue where they would use their own DNS in resolv.conf and those IPS were old, they fixed it up pretty quickly thougb

Why are you blaming this on google DNS? I tested the same code on our DNS system and it logged approx. one DNS request for one call of DNS query while yours logged 50k requests for 5k requests.

Running query usage tests, especially via public DNS infrastructure is not the best idea, especially when using Google DNS or similar. In case of Google they never query just one closest server, inst

I built an in-house DNS system for BunnyCDN, but for my personal stuff I'm using Amazon Route 53 simply becaue they are actually pay as you go, not 1 query over a million, one € more and quite popular

If you ask me it's probably counting DNS questions as queries and counting their internal queries as paid queries or something weird like this. Either that or it's straight bullshit.

I moved many of my domains from namecheap to namesilo since namecheap didn't support setting IPv6 glues for registered DNS (needed a support ticket to get that done).

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Being all suspicious I sent 5000 DNS "random" hostname requests to a domain hosted on Rage4 with a C# code looking something like this:

http://web.archive.org/web/20140703184228/https://rage4.com/Home/DNS

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dnsmadeeasy.com for $30 a year you get 10 domains and 5 million queries included and what is very likely the fastest Anycast DNS around.

3€ + VAT for 1,1mil DNS queries?

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