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Gemini space speed

I really have some curse with connection issues last time.

Before, it was just broken ethernet socket, where the reason described in

Tricky Ethernet

By replacing the wires, found also that gemini pages loading much slower, comparing to huge HTML in Firefox.

I have nice optical provider, so the issue 99% is local. Much local.

Even asked on Station where found nobody have same problem:

gemini://station.martinrue.com/ps/fbfeda03ab214257bab096e5a0df5d41

After some time of thinking, found that I've configured custom Alfis DNS resolver:

https://github.com/Revertron/Alfis

This resolver running on the remote machine and connection there established with encrypted Yggdrasil tunnel:

https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go

So well, let's ping current DNS instance first:

PING 301:5eb5:f061:678e::53(301:5eb5:f061:678e::53) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 301:5eb5:f061:678e::53: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=212 ms
64 bytes from 301:5eb5:f061:678e::53: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=58.6 ms
64 bytes from 301:5eb5:f061:678e::53: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=55.0 ms

An attempt to resolve latency for initial Yggdrasil connection:

Q me

Is any way to change handshake lifetime if I own both nodes connected?

A @neilalexander

Not at the moment, no, the session timeout is ~1 minute IIRC

Well, let's check DNS points now:

PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=116 time=27.9 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=116 time=27.8 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=116 time=27.8 ms

PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=1.13 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=60 time=1.29 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=60 time=1.72 ms

PING 94.140.14.14 (94.140.14.14) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 94.140.14.14: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=177 ms
64 bytes from 94.140.14.14: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=177 ms
64 bytes from 94.140.14.14: icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=177 ms

By irony, Alfis resolver has default forward option:

https://dns.adguard.com/dns-query

Including remote connection over Yggdrasil (plus initial routing time),

I have about 500ms delay in total, just for IP resolve before page starting to load.

Solution

Conclusion