Quad9 DNS Service: 9.9.9.9

[brambedkar59]

Since when Quad9 got an Indian server? Last time I used the nearest server was in Singapore.


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Edit: They had a Bombay server earlier but it was only for peered ISPs.
Edit2: For a sec I thought I had DNS Leak but I tried few other DNS providers and they were working fine.

 

[HC1337]

Quad9 has presence in Kolkata as well, IIFON DC in Kolkata has them as a peer, getting good latency to them with Alliance but not sure if should switch from Cloudflare.

 

[brambedkar59]

@HC1337 Their website only shows one location of server inside India which is at Bombay.

Spoiler: Screenshot

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It's good that they have peered with more ISPs here in India. Wish they had peering with Excitel in Delhi.
Edit: I think I talked to Quad9 support last year about some routing issue (which turned out was a issue on my ISP's side), they were very helpful. That's when they said they are trying to increase presence in India.

 

[HC1337]

I will share the traceroute when I head back to my college, after a week to be precise.
I am certain IIFON dc in Kolkata was in the trace.

 

[Skeeter]

It has indian server in MUM now.

64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=0 ttl=59 time=32.450 ms


64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=32.817 ms


64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=2 ttl=59 time=31.923 ms


64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=3 ttl=59 time=31.737 ms


64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=4 ttl=59 time=32.334 ms


64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=5 ttl=59 time=32.625 ms


64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=6 ttl=59 time=32.274 ms


64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=7 ttl=59 time=33.191 ms


64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=8 ttl=59 time=31.929 ms


64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=9 ttl=59 time=32.118 ms

 

[Deleted member 83050]

I am getting 62-65ms ping, prolly connecting to SG server.

 

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[Skeeter]

Yeah. Airtel's routing is god level.

 

[Deleted member 83050]

How are you connecting to mumbai server?

 

[Skeeter]

I was using Excitel (Jio Upstream) at my cousin's place. Now back to Airtel and awful ping in 280s.

 

[Deleted member 83050]

Maybe Quad9 has peering with Excitel and not Airtel 🤷🏽. Cloudflare and Cisco DNS work perfectly for me with both Tata and Airtel.

 

[Skeeter]

Yes it is under Peering that too Direct.

 

[brambedkar59]

This is the traceroute for me on Excitel (used IP from dnsleaktest.com)

Spoiler: traceroute

Tracing route to 125.20.246.123 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms dlinkrouter.local [192.168.0.1]
2 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms ****
3 3 ms 2 ms 2 ms ****
4 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 14.141.116.229.static-Delhi.vsnl.net.in [14.141.116.229]
5 21 ms 20 ms 21 ms 172.28.176.222
6 24 ms 24 ms 24 ms 115.110.234.142.static.Mumbai.vsnl.net.in [115.110.234.142]
7 30 ms 30 ms 31 ms 116.119.109.26
8 23 ms 24 ms 24 ms 125.20.246.123

This is the traceroute for me on Airtel 4G (used IP from dnsleaktest.com)

Spoiler: traceroute

Tracing route to res132.qsin1.rrdns.pch.net [74.63.20.236]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 22 ms 26 ms 2 ms 192.168.162.119
2 51 ms 28 ms 36 ms 10.0.232.4
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * 43 ms 10.206.248.161
5 52 ms 36 ms 58 ms 125.17.210.37
6 179 ms 130 ms 128 ms 116.119.68.220
7 125 ms 119 ms 128 ms 42.sgw.equinix.com [27.111.228.1]
8 132 ms 130 ms 129 ms res132.qsin1.rrdns.pch.net [74.63.20.236]

Airtel routing is F'ed up. Not only it doesn't use Mumbai server (which might have to do with peering) but the routing to Singapore is horrible, it should around 70-75ms for that IP and not 130 ms.

 

[HC1337]

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| openwrt.lan- 0 | 31 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10.23.31.1 - 0 | 31 | 31 | 16 | 16 | 18 | 17 |
| node-203-171-241-1.alliancebroadband.in - 86 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 35 | 35 | 35 |
| No response from host - 100 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 103.74.224.208 - 0 | 31 | 31 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 17 |
| dns9.quad9.net - 0 | 31 | 31 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 18 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|

As observed, Quad9 does have presence in Kolkata as well, and the traffic goes through IIFON DC.
I get 17 - 18ms to Alliance gateway in Kolkata.

 

[Skeeter]

so quad9 in India is hosted on Airtel(mumbai).