Is OpenDNS doomed?

Noob question alert - should a different DNS server affect matchmaking on COD online on my PS3. The DNS servers are set from my router so everything goes through it and since then I seem to be connecting to games in the US / Australia, resulting in crap , laggy connections, rather than local games. Could this be related or just a temporary blip?
 
I sometimes have to refresh the forums 3 or 4 times to get all the pictures to show (ISP: UKonline).

Is that a DNS issue? I'm going to change to the Google DNS servers tonight to see if it helps, but thought I'd ask the boffins.

Gateway: 2Wire 2700 HG-V
 
EVH said:
I sometimes have to refresh the forums 3 or 4 times to get all the pictures to show (ISP: UKonline).

Is that a DNS issue? I'm going to change to the Google DNS servers tonight to see if it helps, but thought I'd ask the boffins.

Gateway: 2Wire 2700 HG-V
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If you mean people's signature images (and other images not hosted on the OcUK forum server) then it is quite probably a DNS issue yes.
 
OpenDNS had issues when I connected my Android to my network but Virgin's DNS works fine, I will try this Google service as I always find Google services fast and reliable and if down the line it means Google DNS integration to control it from my Google account like most stuff Google now then excellent stuff right there.
 
Well, running the Google DNS here and it does seem quicker.

Not having the problems with any missing pictures either. Just cleared the browser cache, cookies etc, loaded up the random picture thread and all is working. As mentioned above I used to have problems with missing sigs, youtube videos showing as a white square but nothing now.

Much better :cool:
 
My pings appear to be about the same with Google DNS when pinging (with -t switch) www.bbc.co.uk. On average I return 15ms with Google DNS. I have run with OpenDNS, Comodo and 4.2.2.3 (don't know their name).

That said, all of the above return better results than the Virgin default DNS!
 
Ermmm.

DNS is Domain Name Resolution and has nothing to do with routing beyond resolving the IP address of the host name.

Changing your DNS server will have zero effect on your ping times to the beeb.
 
I'm undecided as to which I'll use. Performance wise between OpenDNS and Google there isn't much in it, maybe 7-8ms in favour of OpenDNS (actual lookups, not pings). OpenDNS has some nice features like the phishing protection and what-not. But you have to keep your ip updated on their site, and since most browsers have protection built in now it seems more of an incentive to choose something simpler like Google DNS.
 
Sin_Chase said:
Ermmm.

DNS is Domain Name Resolution and has nothing to do with routing beyond resolving the IP address of the host name.

Changing your DNS server will have zero effect on your ping times to the beeb.
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Ahh, I skim read through this and obviously got pings confused with lookups! :o

Your statement confirms my finding that my pings remained constant regardless of which DNS server being used...
 
Sin_Chase said:
Speed is clearly a placebo effect imo.

Other than ISPs who have really really crappy DNS servers I have never had anything but lightning quick resolution times from my ISPs with a response time no other DNS service can match without a local presence (without traversing non-ISP hops).

I get the added benefits of using a service like OpenDNS for web filtering etc but for day to day general use I bet most people would not notice any speed difference. Most peoples browsing habits will be cached locally anyway.
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I would have thought this my self, but having just tried Google DNS over OpenDNS, websites are indeed more responsive.

For example, when I'd go on bit tech, the whole page would load pretty quickly, but the "featured articles" would be about 5 thumbnails in length and the "latest news" section would be about half way down the page, then the "featured articles" would truncate letting the "latest news" take a higher position on the page.

This is something that's always annoyed me as I regularly mis-clicked links due to the "latest news" section shifting upwards as I went to click on something. That was with OpenDNS.

With Google DNS, the whole page loads as is.

Most sites I'd go on wouldn't load all at once, they'd usually hace some sort of "pop up", again this isn't happening with the Google DNS.

This is something that's slightly annoyed me for quite a while.

I also don't use Bethere's own DNS as I've found it to be extremely flaky and I have used Open DSN out of necessity for about 2 years.
 
Frank Butcher said:
Noob question alert - should a different DNS server affect matchmaking on COD online on my PS3. The DNS servers are set from my router so everything goes through it and since then I seem to be connecting to games in the US / Australia, resulting in crap , laggy connections, rather than local games. Could this be related or just a temporary blip?
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Anyone know if this is an issue?
 
Google DNS
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Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.138] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=117

Ping statistics for 212.58.224.138:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 13ms, Maximum = 15ms, Average = 14ms


OpenDNS
*******
Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.138] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=117

Ping statistics for 212.58.224.138:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 14ms, Maximum = 18ms, Average = 15ms


Virgin Media DNS
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Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.138] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=117

Ping statistics for 212.58.224.138:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 14ms, Maximum = 19ms, Average = 15ms


Google DNS it is I guess!
 
This may be bit of a dumb question, but wont fast DNS servers only help on the first page lookup? After the the IP of a domain is retrieved wont a PC store that in a cache for future use to avoid the need to use DNS? I know that it wont stay in the cache forever as the IP that the domain translates to may change.
 
mrk said:
Google DNS
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Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.138] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=117

Ping statistics for 212.58.224.138:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 13ms, Maximum = 15ms, Average = 14ms


OpenDNS
*******
Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.138] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=117

Ping statistics for 212.58.224.138:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 14ms, Maximum = 18ms, Average = 15ms


Virgin Media DNS
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Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.138] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=117

Ping statistics for 212.58.224.138:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 14ms, Maximum = 19ms, Average = 15ms


Google DNS it is I guess!
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You know dns speed has nothing to do with ping speed, right? :)
 
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