Hi guys, as always, I look to your ideas and insights when it comes to things I cannot see clearly or comprehend. So this one might be simple especially if you're a provider since you might have come across something like this, I just need to understand so it makes sense in my brain due to its vague "symptom".
Essentially, when I try to ping from one of my VPS to any of my other VPS(s) in a different location, it takes more than 10 seconds before I get the initial ping response. After which the ping responses are normally around 64ms (which is fine for me). The problem is that I just can't see beyond the "client side" of things being that I am a client and don't get to see how a network is set up etc.
If I were to make a guess, would this be a possible DNS issue (since it seems the ping times are fine except for the first time it tries to ping)? Or could it be something else - since I don't know much about routing etc? Either way I know the provider will try to help but you know sometimes providers may not provide a full explanation due to their time constraints.
As usual, any ideas, insights, suggestions would be appreciated for my further understanding and knowledge development
Thanks guys
P.S I only began noticing this after trying to troubleshoot my uptime script that I'm working on: http://www.risharde.com/projects/uptime/uptime_viewer.php which is showing nodes offline when they are actually online. The script was working fine yesterday and wasn't modified so that's when I did the ping and realised the above.