Quad9 DNS Service: 9.9.9.9

[Lolita_Magnum]

This is because Quad9 has server only in Local IX's, and they do not use Internet.
Airtel/Jio does not peer at any local IX's because they think they are better than the peasants.

 

[Skye]

@Lolita_Magnum I am getting either Delhi or Mumbai server nowadays for Quad9 on Jio.

 

[Lolita_Magnum]

Good for you! Check the routing.
There is possibility that it is a private peering. I wonder, who bent first.

 

[Hitori_Abhito7]

@Lolita_Magnum so what is the endgame brdr. How does one connect to nearer servaaaaars?

 

[Lolita_Magnum]

You as end-user cannot do anything directly.

There is an alternative, but it is either too nerdy for an avg Joe or just not feasible.

 

[Skye]

I see IP of National Internet Exchange of India, Delhi before 9.9.9.9, though ping is below 40ms, which is like that of Mumbai servers for me.

It might be a temporary thing. I have too much routing issues with them to be happy about it anyway.

 

[x86_64]

I asked Quad9 team about why Airtel traffic goes to Equinix Singapore when Airtel and WoodyNet(Quad9) both have presence in NIXI Delhi and got reply from Zachary from Quad9 team.

If they are peering at all, it is not over the route servers; otherwise they'd be routing to Quad9 already. This means they'd need to agree to peer directly using bilateral peers.

I suspect they don't actually peer at NIXI, and they use the IXP ports to sell IP transit to other networks.

For right now, we don't have the additional capacity in India to bring in Airtel traffic anyway. We are working on increasing capacity in Delhi and Mumbai by the end of the year.

Once we've increased capacity, we will reach out to them and ask, but their reputation suggests they don't have a settlement-free peering policy within India; only outside India. We'll see.

-Zachary

 

[Lolita_Magnum]

This is 100% correct, I can vouch for this.
One also needs to understand that Q9 is a non-profit so it is the ISPs you should be really reaching out to.

 

[x86_64]

I totally agree that Airtel should be the one taking initiative.
But I have had my fair share of reaching out to ISPs only to understand that they are too big to respond to a technical query from a rando because of having no communication channels b/w their Management/Customer Care and Tech Teams.

 

[unnecessary]

On Excitel Quad9 Gives pings on par with Google & Cloudflare.