Google Public DNS – A free DNS Service
Google has a launched a new service, well that no news, what makes news is that it’s a free DNS (Domain Name System) service called Google Public DNS.
Why will Google offer a service you already have, given that your ISP (Internet Service Provclasser) automatically handles the switching between easy-to-remember domain names and unique Internet Protocol (IP) numbers? As Google puts it – it aims at a more secure, faster, safer and reliable DNS alternative.
Like OpenDNS, Google Public DNS is free of charge. If you wish to try it full instructions are available for Mac, Windows and Linux (Debian and Ubuntu) platforms.
If you’ve set-up a VPN (virtual private network) in Ubuntu with OpenVPN protocol that uses OpenDNS servers, like I dclass here with UltraVPN, you can also switch from OpenDNS to Google Public DNS.
3:59 pm on December 8th, 2009
Just switched to Google public dns, can’t notice any major improvement but it works
4:01 pm on December 8th, 2009
Well this is the best Dns Servers 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220 called OpenDNS, let Googgle be!!!
5:28 pm on December 28th, 2009
To see what DNS server is suites to you use namebench: http://code.google.com/p/namebench/
I really don’t know if it’s relevant but you can try! To me it’s saying that the Google DNS is the best…