Hi, On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 02:32:44PM -0500, Josh Luthman wrote:

And yet here I am doing it. Why you would consider a DNS timeout to be meaningless is beyond me. Are you a troll or are you completely ignorant?

Something in your measurement is physically impossible. How can the DNS query return in 10ms if your network packets need 20ms (without the time to do the actual DNS), as shown by your own "mtr -u"? *shrug* gert -- "If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor." Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Gert Doering - Munich, Germany gert@greenie.muc.de