DNS Server help

jamjar · 5 Feb 2011 at 22:59

Hi All I,m not sure if this is the right forum to post this , but i want some info about DNS Servers , what are the best DNS Servers to use either Google DNS or Open DNS Servers ? any help would be useful thanks :confused:

Deleted member 77746 · 5 Feb 2011 at 23:02

They both are great, use Open DNS if you would like to use an online website to control what people can access or assist in filtering out any nasty sites.

jamjar · 5 Feb 2011 at 23:04

iDroid84 said:
They both are great, use Open DNS if you would like to use an online website to control what people can access or assist in filtering out any nasty sites.

ok so either those 2 is great to use ?

Deleted member 77746 · 5 Feb 2011 at 23:15

jamjar said:
ok so either those 2 is great to use ?

The best ones.

asim18 · 6 Feb 2011 at 03:40

iDroid84 said:
The best ones.

Not in my case. Last time I ran a benchmark Google was something like 10th place and OpenDNS was 14th or something. The fastest were Virgin's own DNS servers. A couple of Level3 servers took 3rd and 4th places.

jamjar · 6 Feb 2011 at 10:06

asim18 said:
Not in my case. Last time I ran a benchmark Google was something like 10th place and OpenDNS was 14th or something. The fastest were Virgin's own DNS servers. A couple of Level3 servers took 3rd and 4th places.

Hi there yeah i just got the benchmark software and ran it and the best primary servers were the Be unlimited ones and Open DNS and Google were way down in the middle so stick with what i have ha!

J.B · 6 Feb 2011 at 21:02

I find that normally if you are on a big ISP that their servers are pretty good.

The best thing about Google DNS is the easy to remember IP addresses make it useful for diagnosing DNS issues

Deleted member 77746 · 7 Feb 2011 at 13:55

asim18 said:
Not in my case. Last time I ran a benchmark Google was something like 10th place and OpenDNS was 14th or something. The fastest were Virgin's own DNS servers. A couple of Level3 servers took 3rd and 4th places.

What benchmarking software did you use. I don't see the likes of Open DNS / Google been that far down. You care to screen your results now?

deano · 7 Feb 2011 at 19:52

i use this

http://code.google.com/p/namebench/

KIA · 7 Feb 2011 at 20:22

http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm