Okay, maybe the UBRs don't have the hardware to do DNS but there could be a machine that is 'close' to the UBR that does. Am I missing something or would this not improve the customer experience enormously for quite moderate expense.
A traceroute to 194.168.8.100 this morning reveals a direct connection between Manchester and Winnersh which I'm sure wasn't there a few days ago. This is much better than travelling all round the country but is still not half as good as it could be. Why so?
Code:
Tracing route to cache2.ntli.net [194.168.8.100]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 7 ms 10 ms 8 ms 10.235.100.1
2 8 ms 7 ms 8 ms bagu-t2cam1-a-v122.inet.ntl.com [80.5.162.89]
3 15 ms 38 ms 7 ms bagu-t2core-a-ge-wan64.inet.ntl.com [80.5.161.21]
4 9 ms 13 ms 8 ms man-bb-a-so-310-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.174.69]
5 9 ms 9 ms 12 ms man-bb-b-ae0-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.187.178]
6 15 ms 13 ms 49 ms win-bb-a-so-300-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.138]
7 14 ms 14 ms 16 ms win-dc-a-v902.inet.ntl.com [62.253.187.222]
8 14 ms 15 ms 15 ms cache2.ntli.net [194.168.8.100]