Fastest and the Best DNS for India - 2023

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  Abhishek Rawal

  Help me change my DNS to Google Public DNS or openDNS from BSNL's own ?
  I am extremely noob in this networking thing.
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  Vikram S Bargah

  Abhishek Rawal

  Help me change my DNS to Google Public DNS or openDNS from BSNL's own ?
  I am extremely noob in this networking thing.

  
  Get Started  |  Public DNS  |  Google Developers
  
  This may help you.
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  Abhishek Rawal

  Vikram S Bargah

  Get Started  |  Public DNS  |  Google Developers
  
  This may help you.

  Thanks! I have done in network settings from gnome-control-center. Should I edit resolv.conf too ?
  
  nm-tool shows openDNS which I prefer.
  
  need to change anything else ? (Just confirming)
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  You don't have to do it that way. If you are using your router, simply go to the settings and change the DNS there. That way, every request will be resolved by the new DNS server that you specify. You should be able to access your router on 192.168.1.0 or 192.168.1.1
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  Abhishek Rawal

  Kaustubh Katdare

  You don't have to do it that way.

  Is there any performance difference between two different methods ?
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Abhishek Rawal

  Is there any performance difference between two different methods ?

  There shouldn't be. If there's any difference at all; it would be in milliseconds. The problem with BSNL DNS is that sometimes it becomes extremely slow.
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  Abhishek Rawal

  Kaustubh Katdare

  There shouldn't be. If there's any difference at all; it would be in milliseconds.

  Thanks for info.
  
  

  Kaustubh Katdare

  The problem with BSNL DNS is that sometimes it becomes extremely slow.

  Yup, I have experienced that a lot. Especially during evening. I will try both openDNS & Google DNS, and will compare which is faster for me. Is there any tool to check that out ?
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Abhishek Rawal

  Yup, I have experienced that a lot. Especially during evening. I will try both openDNS & Google DNS, and will compare which is faster for me. Is there any tool to check that out ?

  I mentioned the tool in my first post but did not provide a link. So here you go: #-Link-Snipped-# . Namebench will survey all the DNS servers for you and report which one is the fastest. It turns out that Google DNS ranks among the top ones.
  
  Namebench might take a lot of time to do its tests. Make sure that you only check the options that are relevant to you. I'll recommend that you should only compare the OpenDNS and Google DNS speeds for your ISP.
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  Satya Swaroop Dash

  Google DNS is doing wonders for me, the wait time for looking up websites has reduced vastly.
  
  I hesitated before installing the DNS data because early adopters had complained that it slowed their downloads but I am not finding those defects now. But does using Google DNS lead to some privacy issues such as snooping ?
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  Abhishek Rawal

  
  I am using 3 DNS, two of 'em are Google Public & one is OpenDNS.
  
  I would like to know, are they set as Primary, Secondary & Tertiary ? Is that a priority order ? Or it will select anyone from 3, randomly.
  Apologies for noob question.
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  Ashraf HZ

  Abhishek Rawal

  
  I am using 3 DNS, two of 'em are Google Public & one is OpenDNS.
  
  I would like to know, are they set as Primary, Secondary & Tertiary ? Is that a priority order ? Or it will select anyone from 3, randomly.
  Apologies for noob question.

  Yes, it follows in that order. If your PC fails to communicate to 8.8.8.8 to resolve IPs then it tries to connect to the secondary DNS on so on.
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Update: I decided to keep Google DNS as my default for some time and it's been about ~4 months I haven't touched my setup's DNS settings. Surprisingly, the service has not failed even once. I'm guessing that Google has improved their service by upgrading the servers. There was one glitch that turned out to be from the BSNL folks - which isn't very surprising anyway.
  
  I must say that I'm impressed by Google DNS and all the upload and download speeds I'm getting are very good. Not sure if I can say the same about OPEN DNS. BSNL's own DNS servers are either fast or very slow - and they aren't reliable. Keep BSNL DNS as your default at your own risk.
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  Aditya1096

  Please help I am not able to download any apps from Google playstore, any type of data,etc. Recently my router got reset but somehow I was able to make it connect to internet but can't download anything the only thing I am not able get is the proper dns server for Bsnl and when I use Google DNS I can't use my playstore and no download so please help me
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  #-Link-Snipped-# - welcome to CrazyEngineers. Sorry that your question got missed. Well, you need to check the point of issue. It may not be the DNS related issue at all. Quickly connect to Google Play store using your mobile data connection, while keeping your Wi-Fi off. If the problem persists, you can be sure that the problem is NOT with the DNS. If it works; you can be sure that you need to tweak the DNS settings.
  
  If you believe that it's the DNS issue, you can check with some other DNS. I keep the following DNS handy -
  
  Google DNS:
  8.8.8.8
  8.8.4.4
  
  Others - given to me by BSNL people.
  218.248.255.212
  218.148.241.2
  
  Open DNS
  208.67.222.222
  208.67.220.220
  
  These pretty much get the work done for me all the times.
  
  Coming back to the question of fastest DNS available in India - I'd recommend that you run the speed-test multiple times using speed checking service and see which DNS offers you the fastest speed. Note that it will be highly dependent upon your current location; but as for most of the users here Open DNS and Google DNS do the job very well.
  
  One more way to determine the fastest DNS is to use the Domain Name Speed Benchmark Tool, available as a freeware for Windows : GRC's | DNS Nameserver Performance Benchmark   . It's just a 163kb tool that gives you quite a bit of information about your network and speed.
  
  
  Do give this tool a try and share your experience. Does altering the DNS make any difference to speed?
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Update: The search for the fastest DNS servers in India continues and I believe most of the people here have settled for Google DNS. I wish to know if anyone's discovered new set of DNS that work faster than Google's for Indian users. Please post update here so that everyone benefits.
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Update: I came to know about a few new DNS servers that you can try:
  
  Level3 DNS: 209.244.0.3 | 209.244.0.4
  SafeDNS: 195.46.39.39 | 195.46.39.40
  
  These aren't based in India, but I used them when Google DNS wasn't responding.
  
  Has anyone experimented with JIO's DNS server? If yes, share the IPs, please.
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Update: 

  I've been using Cloudflare's DNS: 1.1.1.1 as my primary DNS for almost about 40 days now, and can definitely say it's actually, noticeably faster than most other DNS you'll find in this discussion. 

  If I'm not mistaken, the cloudflare DNS was launched just a few months ago as a public DNS resolver. 

  Speed Comparison

  
  

  The statistics above are from Cloudflare's own blog, but I can definitely confirm that it's faster than any local BSNL or JIO DNS you might be using. The speed difference compared to Google Public DNS [ 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 ] is not much; but still faster.

  Just in case anyone wants to try these. Here are the steps:

  Setup Cloudflare DNS on Windows 10

  1. Click on the Start menu, then click on Control Panel.
  2. Click on Network and Internet.
  3. Click on Change Adapter Settings.
  4. Right click on the Wi-Fi network you are connected to, then click Properties.
  5. Select Internet Protocol Version 4 (or Version 6 if desired).
  6. Click Properties.
  7. Write down any existing DNS server entries for future reference.
  8. Click Use The Following DNS Server Addresses.
  9. Replace those addresses with the 1.1.1.1 DNS addresses:
     • For IPv4: 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1
     • For IPv6: 2606:4700:4700::1111 and 2606:4700:4700::1001
  10. Click OK, then Close.
  11. Restart your browser.
  12. You’re all set! 

  On my test machine, I had to restart Windows (surprising!) in order for it to recognise the DNS change. It should however work without restarting your computer in 99% of the cases. 

  If you have questions, ask them away. We all need a faster Internet!

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  Tech Ledger

  I have a question about how ip address provides my location and how stuff whatismyipaddress.com shows my location. And i tried to see my ip location when i was in banglore but it showed me as chennai location. How it differs from real location?

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  Kaustubh Katdare

  #-Link-Snipped-# - IP addresses and related GEO location are maintained in databases. These databases aren't very accurate, but can help in most of the cases. At least, they are accurate in predicting the country. I've tried several geo-to-IP services but haven't found anything that's as reliable as Google's location API. 

  I'm looking for reviews and opinions on Cloudflare's DNS - 1.1.1.1. Let me know if it's been working as expected for you. I've used it but switched back to using Google's default DNS. 

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  Mohit Patil

  Cloudflare dns is not working for me. I set up 1.1.1.1 on my router and it did work fine for a few days. How is it working for others? Switching back to Google DNS for now. 

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  Abhishek Rawal

  #-Link-Snipped-# What issue did you face ? 

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  Mohit Patil

  #-Link-Snipped-# Intermittent connection drops and some of the sites suddenly becoming unresponsive. Sites become available upon switching to Google or other DNS provider. I had the Cloudflare DNS setup as default DNS in my router which means entire traffic would be routed through CF. 

  #-Link-Snipped-# I did not see any noticeable speed improvement with 1.1.1.1.