On 09/06/2012 08:56 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Marco Fioretti > <marco.fioretti at gmail.com> wrote: >> sorry, didn't realize I had not sent it to the list too. >> >> I have ran the command again several times, and now it is much slower, >> ~30/40 msec >> > > Innocent, ignorant, curious ramble: > > I understand it has something to do with MX records... > > Dunno if it will help.. Will setting DNS to 8.8.8.8 help? > > or will it require payment to google? > > Recently in India, there were issues with DNS. No that doesn't require payment. Usually you want you DNS to be close to keep the response time short but with a 2 second response time pretty much any nameserver in the world will be faster. So go ahead and use 8.8.8.8 and see if that works better. Regards, Dennis