lesswrong.com’s web server is in the US but both of its nameservers are in Australia, leading to very slow lookups for me—often slow enough that my resolver times out (and caches the failure).
I am my own DNS admin so I can work around this by forcing a cache flush when I need to, but I imagine this would be a more serious problem for people who rely on their ISPs’ DNS servers.
lesswrong.com’s web server is in the US but both of its nameservers are in Australia, leading to very slow lookups for me—often slow enough that my resolver times out (and caches the failure).
I am my own DNS admin so I can work around this by forcing a cache flush when I need to, but I imagine this would be a more serious problem for people who rely on their ISPs’ DNS servers.