[Data Center USA] Ping increased. Report your changes here.

[Galaick]

Folks, you can look up the DNS all day, until the servers are up and pingable the DNS routing tables will not Resolve. so the location will be all over the place as the system tries to find it.

3+ years networking.

Wait, so help me out here, what does this actually mean? It might not be in CA at all or that the ping test I did to another CA server doesn't have to be accurate?

[Lokryn]

Wait, so help me out here, what does this actually mean? It might not be in CA at all or that the ping test I did to another CA server doesn't have to be accurate?

Until the servers are live your looking for a house that technically hasnt been built yet, so the DNS routing tables are looking for where they guess it may be. But until the final host is live, DNS routing can be wrong. I see it all the time where I work. And we have over 50,000 internal IPs we work with. You cant accurately tracert a dead host that was literally just updated and not on the network. The DNS routing will look at old info.

Now to be fair, it could very well be in CA. But I would wait to skewer SE until we can fully ping them.