A DNS check from our Tirana node queries your domain's authoritative nameservers directly and records the response. This confirms whether your DNS is resolving correctly from Albanian network vantage points — important if you use GeoDNS to serve different IP addresses by region, or if you have made recent DNS changes and want to verify propagation into the Balkan IP space.

Albanian ISPs use a mix of operator-managed resolvers and public resolvers. Our DNS checks bypass recursive resolvers entirely and query your authoritative nameservers directly, showing the current authoritative record rather than a cached value. This is the correct method for verifying that a TTL-expired record update has propagated to the nameserver tier and is being returned correctly.

If you use GeoDNS to direct Albanian or Balkan users to a regional origin, a DNS test from our Tirana node should return the IP address assigned to the RIPE / EU or Balkan geo-zone. If it returns a global or US record instead, your GeoDNS provider is not correctly classifying AS197706 or the Albanian IP space. Cross-referencing against nodes in Serbia and Romania helps confirm whether the misclassification is Albania-specific or affects the broader Balkan region.

Albania's internet infrastructure is concentrated in Tirana, where the majority of the country's carrier infrastructure, colocation, and peering is located. AITEX (Albanian Internet Exchange) is the primary national IX, providing a domestic peering point that reduces the need for Albanian ISPs to hair-pin traffic through Vienna or Frankfurt. Keminet SHPK (AS197706) is one of the largest domestic providers and operates significant infrastructure within Tirana, including the node used for our checks.

International transit from Albania primarily exits via submarine cable and terrestrial links toward Italy and Greece. The Tirana-to-Rome path runs approximately 25–30 ms over well-routed paths, and Tirana-to-Vienna sits around 30–35 ms. These figures put Albania within usable reach of Central and Western European CDN infrastructure, though latency is noticeably higher than from hub countries like Germany or the Netherlands. Providers with direct links to Telecom Italia or A1 Telekom Austria tend to show the best RTTs.

The Albanian backbone is served by a small number of major carriers. Albtelecom (AS8774) operates the legacy fixed-line infrastructure and holds significant transit market share. IPKO (AS34772) and Digitalb serve the mobile and broadband segments. Keminet (AS197706) competes as a commercial ISP and hosting provider. BGP routing tables for Albanian prefixes are relatively compact, with most originated prefixes falling under a handful of upstream transit providers including GTT (AS3257), Cogent (AS174), and Telia (AS1299).

Albania is an EU candidate country, which has driven investment in infrastructure and regulatory alignment with EU frameworks. Data center market growth has accelerated since 2020, with Tirana seeing new colocation facilities aimed at both domestic demand and regional hosting for Balkan-focused services. Keminet's own data center in Tirana is the primary facility backing our probe node. Connectivity between Tirana and other Balkan capitals — Skopje, Pristina, Podgorica — is generally better than older terrestrial maps would suggest, with direct Balkan transit links maturing over the past five years.

Our probe node runs in Tirana on AS197706 (Keminet SHPK). Results from this node reflect traffic conditions on one of Albania's largest commercial ISPs. For targets primarily accessed by Albanian residential users, results may differ slightly depending on whether the target is reachable via Albtelecom's residential network or through Keminet's commercial routing. Cross-referencing with nodes in Italy (Rome) and Greece gives a useful baseline for verifying whether high latency is Albania-side or origin-side.