Delivering Dot
Sep 10, 2017Dani Grant
Summary
This post details the performance improvements of F-Root instances hosted on Cloudflare's network. It shows a reduction in median RTT from 8.24ms to 4.24ms and a significant drop in 90th percentile response times. The post also presents data indicating an increase in traffic to F-Root due to its improved speed, citing external reports that named F-Root as the fastest root server in many regions.
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