Quad9 9.9.9.9 DNS queries *from Germany* slow today

by oriettaxxon 1/21/2026, 1:11 PMwith 3 comments

DNS on 9.9.9.9 appears to be very slow since this morning (UTC time zone), querying from Germany

don't know if this status is "normal"

https://status.quad9.net/smap/

by Benderon 1/21/2026, 1:19 PM

Try testing many of the open recursive servers with dnsperftest [1] to see if Quad9 stands out. not my repo

Also run it from other servers/VM's to compare and contrast if you can.

[1] - https://github.com/cleanbrowsing/dnsperftest