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Originally Posted by token
Funny you saying Virgin's DNS servers are slow - I did a few quick digs against their DNS servers, and I can't get a response for what I assume must be cached lookups in more than 10ms. OpenDNS don't respond in less than 50ms ever.
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With VM its the age old story... when its good, its very very good but when its bad its awful. A snapshot in time doesn't prove much for me as I use the service for hours each day. Over the span of a few days the use of VM's DNS servers always led me to wondering what had gone wrong and if wasn't the usual packet loss it was I suspect queuing for DNS responses.
Personally I couldn't care less about how good bad or indifferent VM's DNS servers are because I can choose not to use them or disable the hijack that they are going to implement.
What bothers me is the fact that they are obviously actively looking at revenue adding and I suppose that it is ironic that when I used the words "mission creep" earlier it took relatively little time for someone to find a fairly current missive from VM which puts Phorm and the likes back in the frame, albeit they are still undecided.
This DNS hijack is a pathetic little problem but is "opt-out" and may well set a precedent for something like Phorm when from in-house statistics VM will be able to state massive percentages that chose not to opt-out. If that argument opens the doors to Phorm then the services that VM provide and I do actually enjoy them (most of the time) will be dumped. It is the threat of Phorm etc that is and will stop me from upgrading to 50Meg because if my opt-out is via the exit door then I will not allow a new contract.