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This looks great, but unfortunately CloudFlare has 1ms ping for me but NextDNS has 50ms. I'm not quite sure how it can reply in 1ms, but that's what I'm getting.

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1 ms... Do you live in their datacenter? I sadly don't even get that kinda RTT inside my own house.

I don't either, that's why I'm puzzled. Here's my traceroute:

https://www.pastery.net/zppyhe/

I do have a fiber connection to my ISP, but still, 1 ms is pretty low. I wonder if something else is replying, but I tried 1.1.1.2 as well and the latency is the same.

Nice! Your ISP is good, too. Mine bounces me at least 4 or 5 times before actually going towards the destination.

I like them a lot, they're a small local ISP that does fiber to the home. I just wish they supported IPv6.

Greece is a hard place for many to serve, not a big internet hub. Evidently CloudFlare has servers there, and transit with Cogent too.

Yeah, definitely. I'm surprised CloudFlare has servers near here, if anything.

Let's flex then...

  PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_req=1 ttl=58 time=0.661 ms
  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_req=2 ttl=58 time=0.638 ms
  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_req=3 ttl=58 time=0.615 ms
  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_req=4 ttl=58 time=0.654 ms

Fiber connection by Init7, Switzerland

Have you tried running an actual DNS query against 1.1.1.1? Some ISP were known to filter/blackhole/reroute 1.1.1.1: https://blog.cloudflare.com/fixing-reachability-to-1-1-1-1-g... maybe you're concerned. Otherwise, that's a pretty insane latency!

I use it as my DNS server, so it's working fine, but that's a good idea. Unfortunately, my home router intercepts all DNS queries and reroutes them to its own dnsmasq (which forwards to 1.1.1.1), so I can't do a proper benchmark unless I disable it.

I do wonder what's going on, but here's my traceroute to 1.1.1.1:

https://www.pastery.net/zppyhe/

EDIT: I disabled my DNS interception and it looks like I do, indeed, get 1 ms latency:

https://www.pastery.net/bykmcp/

Interesting. Looks like I have the same thing going on at home, because I have 2.8 ms to 1.0.0.1 and 0.5 ms (!) to 1.1.1.1: https://i.imgur.com/5qpMbuh.png. Both answer to DNS queries, though.

For me it's not so bad, just 10ms, but my ping to Google and CloudFlare DNS is 0.8ms.

The weird thing is that on their front page they claim to have a PoP in Zürich, the nearest city, yet my traffic is going via DE-CIX. My ISP (AS13030) even peers with Misaka Network (AS57695), which appears to be their backend.

I get 1ms to both.

NextDNS will hopefully keep rolling out new sites.

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