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Anyone tried this yet? Google Public DNS

I will set this up on my home n/w and post feedback here.

-BJ

Ouch - for those Google-haters, another chance to take potshots at it. Privacy and other ethical issues are bound to be brought up.

C:\Documents and Settings\BxxxxJxxx>nslookup team-bhp.com
Server: any-in-0808.1e100.net
Address: 8.8.8.8

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: team-bhp.com
Address: 96.30.20.23


C:\Documents and Settings\BxxxxJxxx>ping team-bhp.com

Pinging team-bhp.com [96.30.20.23] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 96.30.20.23: bytes=32 time=328ms TTL=50
Reply from 96.30.20.23: bytes=32 time=327ms TTL=50
Reply from 96.30.20.23: bytes=32 time=331ms TTL=50
Reply from 96.30.20.23: bytes=32 time=327ms TTL=50

Ping statistics for 96.30.20.23:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 327ms, Maximum = 331ms, Average = 328ms

I am using BSNL DataOne.

Service will work, but how is it going to utilize private data? How much access Google gets to the innards of a system, is not spelled out clearly. Initially they might only harvest browsing patterns and sell that info to interested parties, slowly they are going to get intrusive.

ISP: Airtel


nslookup team-bhp.com
Server: resolver1.opendns.com
Address: 208.67.222.222

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: team-bhp.com
Address: 96.30.20.23


ping team-bhp.com
Pinging team-bhp.com [96.30.20.23] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 96.30.20.23: bytes=32 time=282ms TTL=50
Reply from 96.30.20.23: bytes=32 time=280ms TTL=50
Reply from 96.30.20.23: bytes=32 time=283ms TTL=50
Reply from 96.30.20.23: bytes=32 time=282ms TTL=50

Ping statistics for 96.30.20.23:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 280ms, Maximum = 283ms, Average = 281ms

OpenDNS are highly recommended

uTorrent speed test Speed Test - dslreports.com
Using Megapath, SF

ISP:ADL
download speed (Google DNS/ADL DNS):590kbps/312kbps
upload: 158kbps/240kbps
latency: 163ms/322ms

ISP: DataOne
download speed (Google DNS/BSNL DNS):687kbps/625kbps
upload: 420/410kbps
latency: 185/173

A Team-bhp ping returned 282ms average.

OT: just now discovered: DataOne has a vBulletin-friendly name. try typing:DataOne!

Before you use Google's open DNS, try this-

Find your ISP's DNS server IP addresses, and ping them - find the delay in ms
Ping 8.8.8.8 and see the delay

The delay for me is about 6 - 8 times more when I ping Open DNS - this is because my ISP's DNS are much closer than the open DNS servers.

While the millisecond delay is not too long, i dont see how the open dns can make things faster when reaching the server itself is taking a longer time than my ISP's DNS.

Disclaimer! i'm not for or recommending anything. Just my observations. YMMV

It's not about speed. Can't recollect the number of times the dataone's dns server (my home isp and ex-office) has failed to resolve. Problem immediately solved by OpenDNS.

They offer protection against a lot of threats also by blocking domains.
read on here: OpenDNS > Solutions > Overview

Well does your isp keep it's dns servers update?

response to google's dns service is here
OpenDNS Blog

AND google, the monopoly of the net, WILL try to control your internet!

Pardon my lack of techie know-how but what is thos DNS business?

^^^ In short, the service that maps the URL you type to the IP address. If it wasn't there, you'd have to remember and type in 96.30.20.23 instead of team-bhp.com. Try it and see... :)

it is somewhat like a telephone directory for computers. For example if i want sahil's number i will call up telephone enquiry (directory). If the directory has your number, all fine, otherwise it will direct me to another directory which probably has your number and so on...in computers too same happen. When i type http:// xyx . com/ a dns (directory) helps your computer find the number (ip address) of xyz . com computer.
-Bj

ps: posted from mobile device

agree:agree:

I'm not sure why people are posting ping times to team-bhp as a reference, instead of pinging the DNS server.

For me, Google DNS 130ms ping is about 25ms faster than OpenDNS.



Absolutely true! If it was about speed, not much would be able to beat your ISPs DNS servers. (eg. Ping to MTNL DNS server is 25ms whereas Google DNS is 130ms)

The reason people switch is for more consistency and less problems.

http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/1405754-post20.html

cya
R

LOL, so true. The best way to check the effectiveness of a DNS server is to:
1) Try making changes to a domain you control and seeing how long it takes to get them updated.
2) Pinging them directly, though that will only check ping times, not DNS response times.
3) Try quirky URLs, something like TO. -- Get Shorty URL :D

Exactly! I have often suspected that BSNL's DNS servers often have high response times, which nullify the shorter ping time.