said by jstory:Just did.
Got a query response time of 76 msec and 75 msec, respectively, compared to 33 msec for 8.8.8.8.
mtr reports a ping of 13 msec, so maybe the server is just under heavy load.
Gabe responded to you earlier. you have to use the Vancouver DNS servers since you're in BC..
That's because Vancouver has separate DNS servers.
You need to use 76.10.191.198 & 199 (these servers are not yet updated though)
we too can make our IPs respond no matter where you are but we just haven't done that.. there's no real need.
Google has that 8.8.8.8 block anycasted.. it's a routing trick.. that make all the routers think that IP is really close but in fact there are srvers everywhere with the same IP...