Ever since Google has announced its Public DNS services, there have been a bunch of folks updating their domain name servers to those of Google Public DNS. It’s a general belief that Public DNS’ like the lights of Open DNS, Ultra DNS and lately the Google DNS perform quicker DNS look up’s than the default DNS configured by your ISP.
Here is a great example to prove that not always the Open DNS’ are the quickest to perform DNS look up’s and there by allow faster browsing.
Namebench is a tool developed by a Google engineer which does the work of finding the fastest DNS server, including those present locally.
You can download the .exe file for windows from this Google code repository and test the fastest DNS server present in your location.
I ran the test with all the default setting’s (and it took a good 10 minutes to complete) and got the following result.
Astonishing, my current primary DNS server is 396% faster than the Google Public DNS-2. As you can see in the second picture that my default and primary DNS server is 192.168.1.1, which is the DNS server provided by Linksys router for Home broadband users.
So what about you now? Will you shift back to your defaults?
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Yeah — it is surely depend on our internet link (speed). USA users may experience the fastest response for Google DNS.
But with the DNS speed we should also consider the safety and the secure end. Speed is useless if you are not safe while connected.
Can you explain a bit more?
Are Open DNS servers more insecure or the local DNS one’s provided by ISP’s?
Just be sure your DNS is safe and not open to any security holes. If you are not able to the best alternative or solution recommended is simply switch to OpenDNS or Google DNS. As these are tested, reliable ones out there.
This is very interesting. Though, the speed difference is not in the download speed it is in DNS resolution. After the DNS resolution is done, the internet speed is the same.
As it it URL shortners are slowing the internet with so many DNS lookups due to URL shortening.
I couldnt complete testing cos i took me very long time
The above article is very poorly researched & written.
“Astonishing, my current primary DNS server is 396% faster than the Google Public DNS-2. As you can see in the second picture that my default and primary DNS server is 192.168.1.1, which is the DNS server provided by Linksys router for Home broadband users.” –
Please refer wikipedia or some networking document to first understand what a DNS is. If you ping your local router/DNS to get domain names from internet.. you definitely need to upgrade your networking skills. I don’t even feel like explaining more.
As for security:
Some of the public DNS like Open DNS are much more secure, say, Open DNS can even protect you from malware like conflicker, just by noting the traffic pattern coming from your network & much more. Moreover anyday I would trust experts over lame employees @ my ISP.