120M : DNS Curious Question

[alanbjames]

Im just curious as to what DNS Servers people are using for their connection and how they find them.

I have run Googles namesbench to see whats the best for my connection and OpenDNS was primary, BT was second and VMs 2nd DNS server was third.

What im finding is in the evenings sometimes it can be slow switching between sites, i know its not connection speed as if i do a speedtest and download a file i get near to full speed all the time.

[kwikbreaks]

I've tried opendns and google as well as just leaving it on VM's. Right now I'm running VM's and have no complaints.

[alanbjames]

VMs are awful also at times.

I was discussing DNS issues with a friend yesterday infact and he was using a Sky DNS on his virgin apparently until for some reason he could no longer log onto any Tumblr blogs and now he uses googles.

[Kushan]

VM's have had some downtime over the last couple of years, not much but enough to make me use a mixture of OpenDNS, GoogleDNS and VM's. Honestly though, the difference between them in terms of speed is a few ms, you shouldn't notice any significant slowdown from using one or the other.

[Sephiroth]

Google DNS never goes down so I use that.

[Kushan]

As far as I'm aware, OpenDNS sports a 100% uptime as well. I think Google's are marginally faster for me but OpenDNS has some really excellent features that some may find handy as well.

[RainmakerRaw]

+1 for OpenDNS. ISPs, GCHQ, the NSA and goodness knows who else log our data enough without spoon-feeding it through ISP DNS to make it even easier. Then again my VPN provider uses OpenDNS automatically so I don't have to make any changes to my local config.

[qasdfdsaq]

Also most speedtests are not indicative of web browsing speed.

[General Maximus]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Google DNS never goes down so I use that.

exactly, you would expect google to have an extremely high degree of accuracy and fault tolerance which is why I have been using them for years. It is one of those things, like choosing a decent router, where you deliberately choose one of the better ones so you don't shoot yourself in the foot and you know everything is going to tick along smootly background.

[kwikbreaks]

Plus, of course, we all want google to know a lot more about our browsing habits

[v0id]

I use a mixture of OpenDNS, VM and Blockaid.me

[Chrysalis]

I briefly tried opendns a week or so back, noticed google was very slow compared to normal did some investigating and the opendns geo location routed me to the russian google servers which had 70ms instead of 17ms I get on google dns and BT dns. I was also getting occasional lookup failures so I went back to google dns.

[alanbjames]

Cant get onto Tumblr today using OpenDNS. Had to switch to Google.

[welshycarysrees]

i to had this problem and my boyfriend has now left us using google DNS instead of openDNS.