> >Hopefully, we can get a few people to go to http://www.DNSstuff.com and > >check the bottom of the page ("You appear to be located in...") and let us > >know if the country detection isn't accurate. > >It works for us here at twu.ca.
Great. Aside from someone using a satellite connection from a provider in another country, it seems that everyone else is getting accurate results. >The NetGeo does not seem to work for any .ca domains though. Interesting. I just checked a .ca domain and didn't get any results either, but entering in the IP did. More information about NetGeo can be found at http://www.caida.org/tools/utilities/netgeo/ . >It also seems that .ca domains are penalized for some reason with the DNS >timing option Yes -- because it will take an average user longer to perform a DNS lookup on www.example.ca than it will for www.example.com. The DNS timing test is designed to determine how quickly DNS lookups are done. The .ca lookup will take longer because a DNS resolver will need to find the root servers for .ca, whereas they already will likely have a list of the root servers for .com. >which gives our twu.ca domain a D- and my own morning-star.ca >domain gets an F. No. You would get an A- (8 points taken off) if everything else was working well. But, an extra 14 points were taken off because of glue issues, another 4 points because your DNS servers are also used for non-authoritative lookups (IE people in your office probably connect to those servers to look up "www.yahoo.com"), and a whopping 22 points were taken off for long lookup times. >As you can see, we are penalized 8 points for having a .ca domain. And that's unavoidable. The DNS Timing test is quite subjective -- it just an opinion of the DNS timing. Every domain in .ca zone (or any other ccTLD) will have those points off. If most of the people going to your web site are people located in Canada, or people who have recently been to other .ca sites, then it likely will have little effect on the DNS timing for those people. -Scott --- Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
