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US Northeast AnyCast is picking Amsterdam

I'm in New Hampshire, and NextDNS is giving me 45.90.28.228 (EWR) and 45.90.30.228 (AMS).  Assuming these are airport codes, why is it recommending I use a DNS server with nearly 100 ms of latency when there are quite a few others within the US?

https://nextdns.io/diag/6a3fcf50-4419-11eb-a30b-0f26d83f36b8

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    • Paul
    • 3 yrs ago
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    Can anyone help with this?  My only recourse has been to not put 45.90.30.228 in my router's config, for devices that I can't install the app or profile on (IOT, work computer).  The drawback of this is when there's issues with 45.90.28.228, I'm having to log into my router to switch.

    FWIW, I know this is partly my router's fault.  While I'd like to have the DoT settings be used "top down", it appears that it actually does a round-robin.   So half my queries have to go to Amsterdam.

    In addition, issues come up where some sites don't even resolve.  For instance, my health insurance provider, and irs.gov, both fail to resolve at all when the query hits the Amsterdam POP.

      • olivier
      • 3 yrs ago
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      Paul can you please provide a more recent diag?

      • Paul
      • 3 yrs ago
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      Olivier Poitrey  Sure thing, here it is.

      I will note, I was able to force my router to not do round-robin, so at least it'll prefer EWR, but I'd like my secondary to not be outside the US if possible.

      https://nextdns.io/diag/89054190-753d-11eb-a7ae-9f6e888a83a3

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