Best Dns Servers

[Picollo]

What's in your opinion the best dns servers? Which ones do you use as both primary and secondary dns? And finally do you think it increases the loading of webpages?

thanks

[Israeli_Eagle]

OpenDNS :win:

208.67.222.222

208.67.220.220

[wdm]

For me Google

8.8.8.88.8.4.4

And for you, well you need to test yourself...

Gibson Research DNS

[pintas]

There are several good DNS services.

Try namebench and see which of the good ones is faster in your network. (openDNS, Norton, Comodo, Google.....)

[Sonar]

I'm not sure but I think theres a Poll for this somewhere in the Poll Section.

[ASIO]

google dns

8.8.8.8

8.8.4.4

[DaBrain]

I use namehelp which I recently discovered, http://aqualab.cs.no...jects/namehelp Works really well for me!

[avmad]

If I use DNS I use Open. I recommend using DNS Jumper tool for finding the fastest, and changing the settings for you with ease.

http://dns-jumper.en.softonic.com/

[DKT27]

People tend to downplay other important roles of a DNS server.

Important things to note for a DNS server:

• Latency
• Uptime
• Fast updating
• Correct results
• Security and Customization

1. Latency has lot to do with the DNS's servers around you and how powerful they are. Benchmarking tools give you some info, but you should check at different hours and time of the day, just to see if the timings don't change.

2. Recent times, I've seen both OpenDNS and GoogleDNS having problems with uptime. Sometime ago, time and again, both OpenDNS and GoogleDNS used to fail for me, once together.

3. This might not matter to lot of people, but it does to me. When a website changes it's servers (or host), it naturally gets a new IP address. Most of the times, OpenDNS takes about 10-15 mins to update their IP address database, where as GoogleDNS updates in 5 mins. My ISP sometimes takes a day.

4. This is also important. You won't see DNS servers giving too many incorrect results, but my ISP's DNS has had problems with showing the right ones. OpenDNS, likes to redirect to it's own search engine when it finds the page isn't opening, this sometimes hides things like it's openDNS that's unable to open the page, but it's also annoying when it's genuine. OpenDNS blocks some good sites too, by mistake.

5. Google claims that it secures people from bad sites by default. Fair enough. But OpenDNS takes it to another level with it's excellent customizations (like options to block certain type of sites, etc) and security. But in order to make use of those customizations and security, you need to use IP Address Updater from OpenDNS.

So overall, I'll give my thumps up more to GoogleDNS, but just not fully. If you ask me, I'll always use mixture of DNS servers. GoogleDNS as my primary, ISP DNS as secondary, OpenDNS as third and fourth. ComodoDNS as fifth and sixth. If anyone of them fails due to some problem or my bandwidth hogging Torrenting, it switches to another. B)

[Rockstar_26]

Open DNS for the Philippines Globe Telecom.

[mara-]

You can't beat your ISP DNS. If you do a benchmark, ISP DNS is always going to win.

Cheers ;)