I’m running into a strange and persistent networking issue with my Texas Roadhouse menu website, and I’m hoping someone here might help me understand what’s going on. Over the last few weeks, I’ve been noticing irregular DNS propagation behavior where some regions resolve the domain instantly while others take several hours—or sometimes still show outdated IPs. The domain is hosted on a VPS with stable uptime, and DNS is managed through a reputable provider. What’s confusing is that there are no changes being made on my end, yet the delays occur sporadically as if DNS caches aren’t respecting TTL values.
In addition to DNS delays, I’m also seeing routing inconsistencies when performing traceroutes from different geographic locations. Some paths reach my server within a few hops, while others take significantly longer or appear to route through unexpected AS paths. It’s almost as if certain networks are struggling to reach my server efficiently. I initially suspected my hosting provider, but their status checks show normal latency and no packet loss on local tests. I’m not sure if this could be related to peering issues, misconfigured route advertisements, or something else entirely.
What’s even more puzzling is that user reports are inconsistent. Visitors from the U.S. and parts of Europe load the site instantly, yet others—especially in regions like South Asia—experience timeouts or partial loads. Since my website focuses on Texas Roadhouse menu pages and receives traffic from many regions, this performance disparity is starting to hurt both user experience and analytics accuracy. I’ve confirmed that my firewall rules aren’t blocking or rate limiting any IP range, and IPv4/IPv6 configurations appear valid.
I also checked whether my hosting provider recently changed IP allocations or made modifications to their upstream routing, but they insist everything is unchanged. However, RIPEstat shows slight variations in the routing visibility of my prefix during certain hours, which makes me wonder whether my prefix is experiencing temporary instability in BGP announcements. I’m not an expert in routing or RIPE NCC database entries, so I’m unsure how to interpret these fluctuations.
Another angle I considered is whether any misconfiguration in my DNS glue records or name server delegation could be affecting global resolvers. But the domain passes basic DNS health checks with no errors in SOA, NS, or A records. Even so, the inconsistent TTL adherence across different recursive resolvers makes me think something deeper in the routing or caching layers may be at play. If there’s an RIPE-specific tool I can use to diagnose resolver behavior across various networks, I’d love recommendations.
Overall, I’m trying to understand whether this is a DNS caching issue, a routing anomaly, a temporary upstream provider issue, or something related to RIPE database entries that I may have overlooked. Any insights, diagnostic steps, or RIPE tools I should use to analyze this network behavior would be greatly appreciated. I want to stabilize the global accessibility of my Texas Roadhouse menu website, and I’m running out of theories to investigate.