Eircom, Horrible latency

sunzz

Anyone having horrible latency issues with eircom at the moment?

Pinging www.l.google.com [216.239.59.99] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 216.239.59.99: bytes=32 time=354ms TTL=246
Reply from 216.239.59.99: bytes=32 time=367ms TTL=246
Reply from 216.239.59.99: bytes=32 time=335ms TTL=246
Reply from 216.239.59.99: bytes=32 time=334ms TTL=246

Ping statistics for 216.239.59.99:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 334ms, Maximum = 367ms, Average = 347ms

I normally ping around 50, but for some reason its in the high 300-400's

esskay

I am with digiweb but seem to be suffering horribly latency too

Pinging www.l.google.com [216.239.59.103] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 216.239.59.103: bytes=32 time=476ms TTL=249
Reply from 216.239.59.103: bytes=32 time=477ms TTL=249
Reply from 216.239.59.103: bytes=32 time=474ms TTL=249
Reply from 216.239.59.103: bytes=32 time=481ms TTL=249

Ping statistics for 216.239.59.103:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 474ms, Maximum = 481ms, Average = 477ms

Pings are usually sub 80ms for everything

sunzz

whats your dns? I'm on a sligo exchange.



Primary DNS 213.94.190.236
dns2.cra.dublin.eircom.net

sunzz

lo and behold, past 12 it goes right down, love contention which is what its looking like.

vorbis^cs

its affectin me aswell seems to go away after bout 4-5 hours, which is still unacceptable

nickw

Looks to me like Eircoms DNS servers are screwed today.... nothing is resolving, had a few customers call me about it.

Use Open DNS. Eircom are woeful.

http://www.opendns.com/