TP-Link ER707-M2 DNS PROBLEMS (RESOLVED)

TP-Link ER707-M2 DNS PROBLEMS (RESOLVED)

TP-Link ER707-M2 DNS PROBLEMS (RESOLVED)
TP-Link ER707-M2 DNS PROBLEMS (RESOLVED)
2024-08-31 05:30:32 - last edited 2024-09-05 01:03:24
Model: ER707-M2  
Hardware Version: V1
Firmware Version: 1.2.2 Build 20240324 Rel.42799

I am having issues with DNS queries that are SLOW SLOW SLOW. I don't have IDS on and have connected to a OC300 which is working perfectly.

 

I have seen others complain of the LAG or slowness when handling DNS queries. That is the issue I am having, I wait 2-10 seconds for each request.

 

I owned this since June 25th and been fighting it daily since then. 

 

I have gone back to my Fortinet router to rule out the router and it has no lag.

 

I have seen others complaining about slow dns with the ER605 series as well. 

 

I have tried DNS direct with various dns servers, DNS caching via the router. It's just slow on the initial request. 

 

--- edit ---

After throughly testing the DNS function and webchange output the router is indeed performing as it should. No speed issues found. I stand corrected. 

 

 

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Re:TP-Link ER707-M2 DNS PROBLEMS-Solution
2024-09-02 03:34:16 - last edited 2024-09-05 01:03:24

Hi @DACZ 

Thanks for posting in our business forum.

The first query of the DNS is slow, how do you know that?

If the first query is slow, that's a problem with the latency.

If you use DoH, not plain DNS, that's a problem with the resolution to the DoH to find out the closest server.

It could be a problem with the latency of the ISP or the DoH that you used is not the proper one.

 

Very curious how do you verify that.

Overall, it gives me a feeling that this is a DNS server or an ISP latency issue. 2-10 seconds are thousands of milliseconds which means the latency is extremely obvious.

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Re:TP-Link ER707-M2 DNS PROBLEMS
2024-08-31 16:29:49
I want to add, the throughput is fine... once the DNS querry is done.
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Re:TP-Link ER707-M2 DNS PROBLEMS
2024-08-31 18:26:13

  @DACZ 

 

do you use the router as a dns proxy or do you configure dns on the lan interface that the clients get?
if, for example, you set 1.1.1.2 and 1.0.0.2 on dhcp server on lan interface

if you set dns on the lan interface, it is not the router that does the dns lookup but the client and thus the router should not be the brake

 

 

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Re:TP-Link ER707-M2 DNS PROBLEMS-Solution
2024-09-02 03:34:16 - last edited 2024-09-05 01:03:24

Hi @DACZ 

Thanks for posting in our business forum.

The first query of the DNS is slow, how do you know that?

If the first query is slow, that's a problem with the latency.

If you use DoH, not plain DNS, that's a problem with the resolution to the DoH to find out the closest server.

It could be a problem with the latency of the ISP or the DoH that you used is not the proper one.

 

Very curious how do you verify that.

Overall, it gives me a feeling that this is a DNS server or an ISP latency issue. 2-10 seconds are thousands of milliseconds which means the latency is extremely obvious.

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Re:TP-Link ER707-M2 DNS PROBLEMS
2024-09-03 03:12:07

From a DNS script and here are the results with the ER707-M2 

 

Script being run from a Linux test box:

 

Test Domain Name
---- ---------------
 t1: docker
 t2: github

 t3: gmail
 t4: amazon
 t5: apple
 t6: facebook
 t7: google
 t8: paypal
 t9: reddit
t10: twitter
t11: wikipedia

t12: yahoo
t13: youtube
 

 

Which results in as follows: 

DNSSEC to Google (NO CACHE)

 

Provider        t1  t2  t3  t4  t5  t6  t7  t8  t9  t10 t11 t12 t13 Median ms
--------------- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---------

LocalRouter     *   *   2   2   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   3   2   999  2-to

 

DOH to Cloudflare, as CloudFlare is the fasted from my location:

 

Provider        t1  t2  t3  t4  t5  t6  t7  t8  t9  t10 t11 t12 t13 Median ms
--------------- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---------

LocalRouter     66  15  11  59  145 18  10  105 47  20  26  33  23   44.46 ms

CloudFlare/1        8   7   8   8   8   7   8   8   8   8   7   8   8     7.77 ms

 

DOT to Cloudflare

Provider        t1  t2  t3  t4  t5  t6  t7  t8  t9  t10 t11 t12 t13 Median ms
--------------- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---------
Cloudflare/1    12  7   6   6   5   5   6   5   6   8   8   5   6     6.54 ms
LocalRouter     38  12  7   156 194 39  6   46  68  13  43  14  57   53.31 ms

 

DNSSEC to Cloudflare (NO CACHE)

Provider        t1  t2  t3  t4  t5  t6  t7  t8  t9  t10 t11 t12 t13 Median ms
--------------- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---------

Cloudflare/1    9   8   6   5   10  5   5   5   6   10  6   5   5     6.54 ms
LocalRouter     39  38  25  60  224 67  15  291 27  35  53  76  36   75.85 ms

 

DNSSEC to Cloudflare (CACHE ENABLED)

Provider        t1  t2  t3  t4  t5  t6  t7  t8  t9  t10 t11 t12 t13 Median ms
--------------- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---------

LocalRouter     38  40  25  58  217 21  14  168 29  69  44  38  35   61.23 ms
 

2nd RUN... (CACHED)

Provider        t1  t2  t3  t4  t5  t6  t7  t8  t9  t10 t11 t12 t13 Median ms
--------------- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---------

LocalRouter     1   3   1   1   6   2   1   1   3   1   1   1   1     1.77 ms

 

3rd RUN... (CACHED)

Provider        t1  t2  t3  t4  t5  t6  t7  t8  t9  t10 t11 t12 t13 Median ms
--------------- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---------
LocalRouter     1   3   1   1   1   1   2   1   1   1   1   1   1     1.23 ms
 

Which looks like it is working as it should.... I will do more testing with curl to load webpages and compare as it feels like there is a delay. 

 

 

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Re:TP-Link ER707-M2 DNS PROBLEMS
2024-09-03 03:52:17
I'm going to cancel my post.... I stand corrected. It it working perfectly tonight. Speeds changing pages are great and throughput is as it should: 10 Tests to well known sites in seconds. google 0.238304s 0.128761s 0.207869s 0.134131s 0.128101s 0.139321s 0.124725s 0.206614s 0.151096s 0.140431s youtube 0.194237s 0.108350s 0.106802s 0.107103s 0.126275s 0.119134s 0.183858s 0.107089s 0.107161s 0.107205s facebook 0.109798s 0.114509s 0.115490s 0.112183s 0.112305s 0.111151s 0.141749s 0.111846s 0.126751s 0.110587s amazon 0.267821s 0.268721s 0.264329s 0.267421s 0.266313s 0.267828s 0.266203s 0.267602s 0.268939s 0.266036s reddit 0.108081s 0.069985s 0.046161s 0.044172s 0.058296s 0.041469s 0.041168s 0.046273s 0.042359s 0.042677s apple 0.304746s 0.363404s 0.105101s 0.362703s 0.192767s 0.074310s 0.121551s 0.157734s 0.351431s 0.099430s yahoo 0.719225s 0.534047s 0.560717s 0.499123s 0.522358s 0.484729s 0.471054s 0.587065s 0.482942s 0.460286s wikipedia 0.102122s 0.096340s 0.102541s 0.095975s 0.094604s 0.087946s 0.093577s 0.098077s 0.103893s 0.101037s twitter 0.179530s 0.159161s 0.169598s 0.170460s 0.172210s 0.171013s 0.172995s 0.181320s 0.156402s 0.168937s paypal 0.447049s 0.342147s 0.339982s 0.383437s 0.481494s 0.499407s 0.393710s 0.421468s 0.343466s 0.331969s docker 0.329234s 0.300714s 0.259386s 0.258992s 0.257358s 0.273962s 0.255471s 0.259223s 0.306638s 0.258587s github 0.104240s 0.037784s 0.038104s 0.039819s 0.039006s 0.038962s 0.048867s 0.040366s 0.037036s 0.037120s gmail 0.182076s 0.112372s 0.177912s 0.107977s 0.106016s 0.174848s 0.105174s 0.127583s 0.179159s 0.115532s (Connection is Gig Fiber)
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