[opty165]

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Today, as part of our efforts to make the web faster, we are announcing Google Public DNS, a new experimental public DNS resolver. The DNS protocol is an important part of the web's infrastructure, serving as the Internet's "phone book". Every time you visit a website, your computer performs a DNS lookup. Complex pages often require multiple DNS lookups before they complete loading. As a result, the average Internet user performs hundreds of DNS lookups each day, that collectively can slow down his or her browsing experience.

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Google public DNS site

I just changed my DNS address on my server over to these ones. I can't say that I notice much of an increase since im on fiber optic anyway, but i'll keep them anyway lol

 

[Pineappleman]

I wonder how this compares to OpenDNS

 

[opty165]

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Originally Posted by Pineappleman I wonder how this compares to OpenDNS

there's an article about it here

 

[Thedark1337]

Trying it out, dont notice alot of differences

 

[usapatriot]

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Originally Posted by Pineappleman I wonder how this compares to OpenDNS

This is what I want to know.

 

[Snowman1989]

Maybe i'll do this later.

 

[Gurr]

Another way for Google to rule the world!

All jokes aside, I don't see a difference.

 

[SgtSpike]

I'm thinking of creating a fake DNS directory/server, and scrambling the DNS names/IP addresses, so that when someone goes to google.com, it puts them at craigslist and so on. Wouldn't want it to be completely random though, just the major sites, so you could play "work safe" tricks on people.

 

[cypher\this]

First google catalogs every search you return, no longer content they are now going to catalog every addresss you try to resolve

 

[Mr_Torch]

I'm sticking with OpenDNS, I like the self-controlling options on OpenDNS. That is something you WON'T get with the Google DNS service, they just want more info on you to suit their purposes and needs for making a buck.

 

[GodofGrunts]

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Originally Posted by usapatriot This is what I want to know.

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Originally Posted by opty165 there's an article about it here

Fail

 

[h33b]

I started using this, switched from OpenDNS, and I do feel like some sites are resolving faster. Not everything, but OCN does load miliseconds faster, and getting to google itself or any of its services are damn near instant. Maybe it's just my set up, but for me I can definitely see improvement using Google DNS.

 

[MalXenos]

Think i will try them out when i get home

 

[low strife]

The only reason to switch from your ISP provided ones is if those are crap. There are ISP's who have pretty horrible DNS servers, and most of those people are on open DNS, which really wasn't too good compared to google's DNS servers.

 

[DuckieHo]

Even if Google had slightly faster servers, it couldn't make up for the fact that OpenDNS is physically closer.

8.8.8.8 = ~26ms
8.8.4.4 = ~24ms
208.67.222.222 = ~16ms
208.67.220.220 = ~21ms

 

[Xombie]

I'm not sure if it's faster, but I still switched over.

I think it is.

 

[nathris]

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Originally Posted by DuckieHo Even if Google had slightly faster servers, it couldn't make up for the fact that OpenDNS is physically closer. 8.8.8.8 = ~26ms 8.8.4.4 = ~24ms 208.67.222.222 = ~16ms 208.67.220.220 = ~21ms

For me...

8.8.8.8 = ~65ms
8.8.4.4 = ~67ms
208.67.222.222 = 11ms
208.67.220.220 = 16ms

That pretty much says it all doesn't it?

 

[Darkknight512]

I'm using OpenDNS because it gives me more control, speed does not matter as much because I have a DNS cache on my router of about a quarter MB.

 

[Dannythm]

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Originally Posted by DuckieHo Even if Google had slightly faster servers, it couldn't make up for the fact that OpenDNS is physically closer. 8.8.8.8 = ~26ms 8.8.4.4 = ~24ms 208.67.222.222 = ~16ms 208.67.220.220 = ~21ms

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Originally Posted by nathris For me... 8.8.8.8 = ~65ms 8.8.4.4 = ~67ms 208.67.222.222 = 11ms 208.67.220.220 = 16ms That pretty much says it all doesn't it?

So for me in Spain the response times are::

8.8.8.8 = ~83ms
8.8.4.4 = ~76ms
208.67.222.222 = 72ms
208.67.220.220 = 73ms

not a huge difference.

 

[Bitemarks and bloodstains]

UK pings
8.8.8.8 = 44ms
8.8.4.4 = 38ms
208.67.222.222 = 32ms
208.67.220.220 = 33ms