Thread: Google DNS

Replace DNS with 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4 and go with google rocket

Oh, DNS as "go-faster-stripes" again.

It might work out that way. Google do a tool to find out which is the fastest DNS service for you. It is worth trying it, and many people are surprised to find the results!

My advice to Windows users: No DNS server can be faster than your own machine... Use Treewalk

I tried it and it was slower than my ISP DNS

That seems to be the result a lot of people get.

Changing the DNS is often recommended for problems it could not possibly cure because ...well, I don't know, because it is there and changeable, I suppose! On the other hand, I know, from my BSNL-customer days, that whatever the fastest-dns-test tool says, the BSNL DNS can be painfully slow --- as in sit back and wait for it.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Suck it and see --- give it a try!

Changing dns servers is greatly overrated. The differences are minimal.
I've never even seen any concrete proof of the benefits.

Anyway, different dns servers work better for different zones. Ping each and see which works best.

Originally Posted by rsen

Changing dns servers is greatly overrated.

Very much so. In fact I'd go so far as to say over-hyped!

my rule-of-thumb method: ping any domain name that you have not browsed to since booting your computer (Windows caches the sites you have visited). If there is a noticeable amount of time before the first line with the translated IP address appears, then look for a different DNS. Otherwise don't bother.

If web pages are not even opening because the DNS is not returning the address before the thing times out, well, that is really bad. I did have a time with this happening repeatedly on BSNL. That is when I installed Treewalk, and the situation was greatly improved. Treewalk is your very own DNS running on your very own machine. Even Treewalk, however, has to go to an external DNS for addresses it doesn't yet know. If, as mine is, one's browsing pattern is to spend 90% of one's time on the same few sites, then Treewalk can certainly fix the problems I was having with BSNL a few years back. I'd be using it today, except I've gone Ubuntu!

yup almost always crappy connections are because of absolute garbage routing (which is usually cheaper), bad signal quality or faulty wires.