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Old 17-06-2021, 16:14   #46
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Re: Virgin Akamai Cache Congestion

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It's cropped up on reddit, enabling DoH / DoT has sorted it there as well.
Yup, I can confirm the iPlayer now works fine with DoT enabled. No issues streaming anything.
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Old 17-06-2021, 23:08   #47
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Re: Virgin Akamai Cache Congestion

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This is what I get using Google's DNS



Pretty slick.

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My Google DNS result is virtually the same as above, but 1.1.1.1 takes a longer route via Paris:

tracert a1792.w60.akamai.net

Tracing route to a1792.w60.akamai.net [2.22.22.210]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms RT-AC86U-7358 [192.168.1.1]
2 10 ms 11 ms 11 ms 10.53.39.9
3 15 ms 18 ms 11 ms pres-core-2b-xe-714-0.network.virginmedia.net [80.0.160.153]
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 28 ms 97 ms 108 ms 86.85-254-62.static.virginmediabusiness.co.uk [62.254.85.86]
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 23 ms 32 ms 25 ms be2868.ccr41.lon13.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.57.153]
8 113 ms 33 ms 29 ms be12497.ccr41.par01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.56.130]
9 26 ms 30 ms 28 ms be3183.ccr31.par04.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.38.66]
10 27 ms 28 ms 25 ms be3169.agr21.par04.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.37.238]
11 29 ms 30 ms 25 ms akamai.demarc.cogentco.com [149.11.114.234]
12 30 ms 33 ms 36 ms a2-22-22-210.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com [2.22.22.210]

I can see the attraction of Cloudflare DNS for those who don't use VM DNS and dislike Google but some of the routing could be better.
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Old 21-06-2021, 12:34   #48
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Re: Virgin Akamai Cache Congestion

So I’m still using VMs DNS. If I set my router to my NAS (which is synology/docker/adguard now) my internet dies. Wondering if it was due to running pihole in docker (have since deleted the container) and a port conflict, however the instance is set to use my nas ip.
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Old 22-06-2021, 09:07   #49
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Re: Virgin Akamai Cache Congestion

why don't you tell your router to use Google dns? (or cloudfare/whatever your preference is)
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Old 22-06-2021, 10:24   #50
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Because as per synthetics evidence, changing dns provider kills quality on things like Nowtv/btsport. I haven’t tried google dns but I think synthetic had.
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Old 22-06-2021, 16:09   #51
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Yeah it doesnt matter which you use if you dont have DOH/DoT
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Old 22-06-2021, 16:48   #52
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Synthetic - have you managed to fully resolve the issue using DoT or DoH for both BT and Now?
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Old 22-06-2021, 21:31   #53
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Synthetic - have you managed to fully resolve the issue using DoT or DoH for both BT and Now?
Now is working fine but BT I can only resolve by adding static DNS, I'm not sure if my unbound is sending me to a dodgy cache or what
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Old 22-06-2021, 22:17   #54
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So when I had adguard running, I set my windows pc to my DNS server - however I still experienced issues with now and bt. Bit frustrating really. I’ll try again when I can get my router/dns server playing nicely.
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Re: Virgin Akamai Cache Congestion

I can't see how "pure" DNS would affect routing as all it does is translate name to IP (and back maybe). If different DNS's resolve differently that may affect things.


You could try the tracepath command which works a little bit differently and doesn't need root privileges on UNIX/LINUX. This can show if packets are fragmented and highlight asymmetric routing though the latter isn't always the problem it used to be.
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Old 23-06-2021, 11:14   #56
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I can't see how "pure" DNS would affect routing as all it does is translate name to IP (and back maybe). If different DNS's resolve differently that may affect things.


You could try the tracepath command which works a little bit differently and doesn't need root privileges on UNIX/LINUX. This can show if packets are fragmented and highlight asymmetric routing though the latter isn't always the problem it used to be.
Whatever the case, using cloudflare kills nowtv/btsport for me.

BT sport ultimate - constant buffering and unwatchable

BT SPORT HD - really bad quality with buffering, just less than ultimate

Nowtv - buffering and really poor quality

As soon as I revert to VM dns it’s fine
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Re: Virgin Akamai Cache Congestion

Not the best solution but do an nslookup / dig using the virgin servers, then set a static dns in your pihole for that akamai domain so when you're using CF/google, your pihole will send you to the ones you use when you're using the virgin DNS

Or i guess use virgin's DNS if you're not having any trouble with them
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Re: Virgin Akamai Cache Congestion

I've noticed a bit of latency recently, although I've not correlated it to any particular site or route, and I was, unfortunately, dealing with another issue on my MBP that saw seeing my downloads capped to 20Mbit/s, I stumbled across the solution for that by accident though.

I just ran a trace to the akamai server that was mentioned in this thread.



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Re: Virgin Akamai Cache Congestion

So if i use google DNS it sends me to the virgin cache, and everything appear to works as it should now, i wonder if virgin have fixed their mess..

1.1.1.1 still sends me via cogento though
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Re: Virgin Akamai Cache Congestion

I dont watch any terrestrial tv apart from Wimbledon every year. Yesterday i had the tennis going on my tvs, tablet and phone simultaneously using iplayer and google dns and didnt have any problems.
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