05-01-2008, 17:13
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Re: Open DNS and its benefits
run my own dns so no need to use it 
not a fan of services interfering with dns requests either
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05-01-2008, 17:16
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Re: Open DNS and its benefits
I don't use opendns, but I do use a set of public dns servers and have for about three years now.
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05-01-2008, 17:25
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Re: Open DNS and its benefits
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run my own dns so no need to use it |
So if YOUR DNS server doesn't have an address in it's database, where does it go to obtain the IP number? I guess you must have a forwarding DNS server in your list.
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05-01-2008, 17:30
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Re: Open DNS and its benefits
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Originally Posted by dev
run my own dns so no need to use it
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Ditto, though the times i have used Open DNS it was actually -slower- than VM's own dns...
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05-01-2008, 18:00
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Re: Open DNS and its benefits
I tried it and didn't notice any real difference. In fact, I noticed on one or two sites images wouldn't load anymore until I switched back to the normal automatically assigned DNS.
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05-01-2008, 19:24
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Re: Open DNS and its benefits
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So if YOUR DNS server doesn't have an address in it's database, where does it go to obtain the IP number? I guess you must have a forwarding DNS server in your list.
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the root servers, if i was using another dns server as a forwarding one i would just use that one instead
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05-01-2008, 19:44
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Re: Open DNS and its benefits
Sky's DNS tend to return errors so I've had it set up on one computer. No problems noticed.
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05-01-2008, 20:03
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Re: Open DNS and its benefits
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Ditto, though the times i have used Open DNS it was actually -slower- than VM's own dns...
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When they're working correctly... 
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05-01-2008, 20:04
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Re: Open DNS and its benefits
Well I've just put it on this pc and noticed an instant speed improvement.
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05-01-2008, 20:11
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Re: Open DNS and its benefits
Any "speed improvements" are mostly in your mind. Your PC only needs to look up the ip address of a site once, it then caches it locally. It won't make any difference to how fast a site loads other then the slight delay when you first visit it.
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05-01-2008, 20:19
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Re: Open DNS and its benefits
Well if you visit many different sites those slight delays will add up. But yes, you need to be aware when to look for the difference.
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05-01-2008, 20:23
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Re: Open DNS and its benefits
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Originally Posted by Paul M
Any "speed improvements" are mostly in your mind. Your PC only needs to look up the ip address of a site once, it then caches it locally. It won't make any difference to how fast a site loads other then the slight delay when you first visit it.
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No the speed improvement is not 'in my mind'.
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05-01-2008, 20:33
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Re: Open DNS and its benefits
hi
I Have used it and some improvement . only Snag i find is for UK-only things
like BBC News 24 those do not work.
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05-01-2008, 20:47
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Re: Open DNS and its benefits
Dont make any difference really, this page still took 11.326seconds to load, so much for downloading a music track in 2 seconds, thats false advertising if ever I saw it!!!
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05-01-2008, 21:15
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Re: Open DNS and its benefits
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Dont make any difference really, this page still took 11.326seconds to load, so much for downloading a music track in 2 seconds, thats false advertising if ever I saw it!!!
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dns has nothing to do with download speeds, as said previously it only matters with resolving the domain name and thats usually only done once per site so won't help in speeding up browing as once you visit the site, you have the IP cached locally
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