Speed-up your surfing with Google's Public DNS

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Don your tin foil hats, ladies and gentlemen. Take the following news with a pinch of salt and admire their noble privacy policy. Now brace yourself: Google, with the benevolent and seemingly-altruistic intent of speeding up the Internet, have just launched a public DNS service.

What is DNS? Computers on the Internet don’t actually have names – they have numerical IP addresses. DNS maps names to numbers. When you type in ‘DownloadSquad.com’, DNS runs off and resolves that to an IP address. DNS is almost completely visible to you, the end user. Except for one thing: it’s slow. Most Internet users will use their ISP’s DNS servers which can be slow or buggy or even return the wrong results. With Google’s new public DNS servers, they are guaranteeing faster speeds and more accurate results. Apparently DNS servers can also be compromised and fake details inserted – with Google’s service you should be more secure.

But there are implications. Good implications, but still, you wouldn’t seriously expect Google to launch something as huge as this with purely innocent intentions… would you? Google wants to speed up your access to *their services. *Their Voice, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=(http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?p=64&kw=Google) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=(http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?p=64&kw=Domain+Name+System)

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Re: Speed-up your surfing with Google's Public DNS

sweet, any1 tried this?

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Re: Speed-up your surfing with Google's Public DNS

^^ scared to try it .. present isp injects into http sites regardless of browsers used (to deliver account updates/security warnings/what not), and thats a local provider, who knows what google could do ...

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Re: Speed-up your surfing with Google’s Public DNS

I’ll try it in the morning :k:

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i did try it but didnt notice any changes.

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Re: Speed-up your surfing with Google's Public DNS

You really won't notice anything. There's tons of factors for this to make noticable difference. Plus the fact that Confused mentioned, that of having Google know (first of all) what the heck you're doing on the internet. And secondly to bring more targeted marketing to your eyes.

Best one out there is still OpenDNS, free, open and lots of features. Including filtering and parental controls. I think I mentioned that in one of the posts here.

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Re: Speed-up your surfing with Google’s Public DNS

yep 208.67.222.222 and .200.200 :k:

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