Why use DNS Server in Japan? (European user here)

[Freki123]

Hi there I'm living in Europe and Adguard chose to use a DNS Server from Japan.
Why the long way from home when you got 4 Server in Europe that would be way closer?
7.5 Beta 1

 

[Chinaski]

Hello there!

Routes are distributed on the BGP principle.
Apparently, for some reason, ping is considered closer to Japan than to European servers.
Try re-connecting the DNS, will there be any changes?

 

[Freki123]

Try re-connecting the DNS, will there be any changes? Sadly no

From all the available DNS Servers only Adguard choose Japan. The others found Servers in my country or a few hundred miles away. Adguard was the only one chosing a country thousands of miles away.

Fun fact even Adguard DNS changed from the Netherlands to Japan a few days before I tried this new beta.

 

[Freki123]

@myMoon Any idea why of all the servers to choose from only Adguard thinks a server which is a few thousand miles away is faster than 4 servers close by? E.g. Google, Quad, Open DNS each chose a server in my country or only a few hundred miles away. Not Adguard.

 

[domy_os]

I'm having the same problem, instead of choosing a DNS server from Europe, it is jumping to Japan and South Korea. WTF?

 

[row_double]

I also experienced the same thing,

this week I was in Indonesia always getting the DNS adguard server in the Seoul (SE) region, before I always got the DNS adguard server in the Singapore region (SG), the location closest to my country.

what is wrong with DNS Adguard routing ???

 

[Chinaski]

We're working on finding a solution. I think the situation will improve in the near future.

 

[row_double]

We're working on finding a solution. I think the situation will improve in the near future.

I'm glad to hear that, latency is getting better again.
however, routing to DNS adguard still seems to have problems on one of the routes. Here I attach a traceroute comparison of the 3 available public DNS providers.

Spoiler

 

[domy_os]

Looks good now, back to Netherlands again.

 

[registradus]

I'm having the same problem with the Adguard VPN. server set to Australia, but every website thinks I am in Japan.

 

[AnthonyB]

Someone in AG must just like Japan?

I'm seeing the same but (so far) only with one website (iherb.com) that always redirects me to the Japan domain (https://jp.iherb.com/) instead of the Australian one (https://au.iherb.com). I'm using AG VPN and AGH DNS

 

[AnthonyB]

Just had another site that offered me their Japan page - https://beancraft.com.au

 

[AnthonyB]

I've also had a couple of Gleam.io competitions which were limited to Australia tell me that the competition "isn't available in your region".

As soon as I disable AG VPN, all works perfectly.

 

[registradus]

Yeah still happening for me. all prices being displayed in Yen

 

[AnthonyB]

Was this me in Japan? Nope, it was me in Australia using the Sydney VPN option in AG VPN!
C'mon AG folks - this is not OK and you can't just blame it on BCP and wash your hands of it.

 

[AnthonyB]

Another website that keeps redirecting me to their Japanese page - https://www.dji.com

Could we get a confirmation from the AG team that they are aware of this issue?

Thanks!

 

[registradus]

Now the Australian server has disappeared? and I'm being redirected to the Singapore server?

 

[registradus]

Looks like this has finally been resolved.

 

[registradus]

nope. back to japan