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Is this a good test? The fastest result is 5.9ms.. that means that DNS provider won because they happened to be in the same city where dnsperf tested from. That node is in Sao Paulo Brazil.

There are about 400m people in south america, and this test declares a provider to be the fastest for South America because both the provider and the test taker happened to pick Sao Paulo.

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Not really, no. In general tests for latency aren't that valuable except to perhaps show providers where they might want to place their next PoP, since if you have the ability to look at a finer grain you can actually identify generally where latency presents the greatest problem (i.e. areas where instead of 40ms response time, you see 400ms).

Not forgetting cache, and the fact that slower response times aren't horrendous in the scheme of things.

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