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A traceroute would tell the story better.

From DigitalOcean in SF I'm hitting the OpenDNS Palo Alto datacenter. Google is going to San Jose.

Remember OpenDNS is a real business working to provide a service to real paying customers, Google DNS is just a fun little project of building an OpenDNS clone.

I believe all the DO droplets default to 8.8.8.8 so Google are probably applying some rate limiting across the DO network block during usage peaks.