Google launches free public DNS

[Ken Sp.]

8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4

http://www.macworld.com/article/144716/2...c=rss_news

[Doc]

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/...dress.html

"By using Google Public DNS you can speed up your browsing experience, improve your security, get the results you expect with absolutely no redirection."

Does that mean they'll kick back NXDOMAIN errors for bad queries?

[Markintosh]

And Google will better be able to track your every move.

(As if they don't already...I'll go back to my foil tent again.)

[space-time]

I am actually surprized it took them that long. Verizon had several servers available to the public for years. Same with Open DNS. what took google so long?

[edgarbc1]

do you think there is a real advantage to using
these DNS numbers?

can it be expected that small ISP businesses use crappy
equipment which are hopelessly outclassed by theGoog ?

[MikeF]

Use Network Utility to ping the DNS servers (Google, Verizon, et. al.). Use the one with the fastest response...

Edit: I just tried it and Verizon is 3X faster (4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2) for me...

[M A V I C]

--- 4.2.2.2 ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 27.428/31.331/42.426/4.776 ms

--- 4.2.2.1 ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 27.596/28.061/28.385/0.246 ms

--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 69.094/69.722/70.548/0.499 ms

7 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 67.704/68.581/71.428/1.188 ms

Comcast primary
--- 68.87.69.146 ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 14.744/16.040/19.245/1.607 ms

Comcast secondary
7 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 41.912/43.791/53.372/3.916 ms

[edgarbc1]

USFamily.net ISP 256k DSL Router Settings:
DNS#1:
--- 64.131.63.2 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 28.524/40.506/125.859/28.487 ms
DNS#2
--- 64.131.31.2 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 27.910/30.115/31.224/0.913 ms

theGoog:
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 49.659/52.493/60.877/2.998 ms
--- 8.8.4.4 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 49.536/50.902/52.491/1.160 ms

Airport Extreme Base Station (snow dome, g network ithink)
wireless (i eliminated ethernet from Network/Sys Pref)
--- 10.0.1.1 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.410/0.473/0.790/0.106 ms

ethernet (i enabled ethernet in Sys Pref and then did the ping)
--- 10.0.1.1 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.396/0.424/0.444/0.015 ms


No benefit for me to go to theGoog

[edgarbc1]

i took a look at OpenDNS
--- 208.67.222.222 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 37.634/39.428/41.794/1.142 ms

--- 208.67.220.220 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 37.653/39.832/40.761/0.968 ms