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Routing to Dubai instead of Delhi - NextDNS - ⚠️ Wrong Anycast location Issue - Please help :(

Hey @nextdns Team, I live in India and the closest server to me is DELHI (anexia-del) and not Dubai (anexia-dxb).

My issue is that when I connect NextDNS on my PC and ping "https://ping.nextdns.io", the results are not pretty good:

  anexia-del      13 ms  (ultralow2)

  vultr-del       21 ms  (anycast1, ultralow1)

  ls-bom          38 ms

  anexia-maa      47 ms

  do-blr          53 ms

  vultr-blr       57 ms

  vultr-bom       63 ms

■ anexia-dxb      74 ms  (anycast2)

  melbicom-dxb   109 ms

  lightnode-ruh  240 ms

 

NOTE: When I use Android and iPhone's Private DNS, it shows the correct route with the lowest ping, when I ping the "ping.nextdns.io".

⚠️ Maybe something is fishy with the anycast servers? I guess they're not connecting me to the nearest location (anexia-del) :( Can you please check this once? Thanks a lot.

My email is: himanshu2508chauhan@gmail.com

Here's the Report generated from your Tool: https://nextdns.io/diag/c7528f20-03e7-11ef-9440-5545f26a08ce

Here's the response of test.nextdns.io:
{
    "status": "ok",
    "protocol": "DOH",
    "profile": "fpee755a589229e3da",
    "client": "124.253.89.10",
    "srcIP": "124.253.89.10",
    "destIP": "45.90.30.0",
    "anycast": true,
    "server": "anexia-dxb-1",
    "clientName": "unknown-doh",
    "deviceName": "Windows",
    "deviceID": "F1ISC"
}

5 replies

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    • Rishabh_Chauhan
    • 6 mths ago
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    @nextdns, can you please check this once :)

    Thanks!

    • NextDNs
    • 6 mths ago
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    del is a ultralow only location. You can switch to our app or YogaDNS to get ultralow on Windows

      • Rishabh_Chauhan
      • 6 mths ago
      • Reported - view

       Just a last question :)

      What do you recommend using: the app OR YogaDNS?

      • Rishabh_Chauhan
      • 6 mths ago
      • Reported - view

       

        anexia-del      10 ms  (ultralow2)

      ■ vultr-del       27 ms  (anycast1, ultralow1)

        vultr-bom       32 ms

        ls-bom          35 ms

        vultr-blr       42 ms

        do-blr          49 ms

        anexia-maa      55 ms

        melbicom-dxb   127 ms

        anexia-dxb     174 ms  (anycast2)

        lightnode-ruh  213 ms

      The above is the latest ping result. 

      Can you please tell the difference b/w vultr-del and anexia-del :)

      Thanks.

      • NextDNs
      • 6 mths ago
      • Reported - view

       different providers, we always have two different providers/network per location. In del, only one of them supports anycast, meaning the secondary anycast IP won't be in del.

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