Which DNS Do You Use & Why?

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  durga ch

  I am little confused here. Its my ISP who decides what DNS i need to be using right?
  Frankly, I wasnot aware of OPEN DNS :lame:, may be it needs a try .
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  durga

  I am little confused here. Its my ISP who decides what DNS i need to be using right?
  Frankly, I wasnot aware of OPEN DNS :lame:, may be it needs a try .

  That's correct. However, you may also let Open DNS do the job for you.
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  Prasad Ajinkya

  I use Google's DNS - 8.8.8.8
  
  Have registered for OpenDNS, but Google's beats the hell out of OpenDNS in response times. And its much safer.
  
  As a fall back I use a public DNS - 4.2.2.2
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  Ashraf HZ

  I also use Google's 8.8.8.8. OpenDNS was a mixed affair, sometimes being faster than my ISP DNS, sometimes slower 😛
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  gaurav.bhorkar

  I used OpenDNS sometime, but it didn't make much of a difference regarding speed. So I reverted back to the defaults of my ISP
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Just wondering whether it's got any effect on the download speeds.
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  Prasad Ajinkya

  It will, at the start. But later on it won't. Net net there will be delta difference. However if you are using the crappy DNS servers that most of our service providers offer, then things are completely different. They are not updated regularly, they might contain wrong entries and are a sure shot way of exposing yourself.
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  jintujacob

  Hope you will read #-Link-Snipped-#. Its all about a comparison of the free dns servers available and the way to select the best one ...
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  jintujacob

  Hope you will read #-Link-Snipped-#. Its all about a comparison of the free dns servers available and the way to select the best one ...

  I looked at the site. Do you have any experience/experiment to share that shows the download speeds are affected by use of any particular DNS? Google's DNS are very fast however there are few people who've mentioned that they'll usually reduce the download speeds. I also want to know whether there's a large difference in browsing speeds and download speeds experienced using various DNS.
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  jintujacob

  The_Big_K

  I looked at the site. Do you have any experience/experiment to share that shows the download speeds are affected by use of any particular DNS? Google's DNS are very fast however there are few people who've mentioned that they'll usually reduce the download speeds. I also want to know whether there's a large difference in browsing speeds and download speeds experienced using various DNS.

  Dear Friend,
  
  The dns address doesn't be the right option for increasing the network performance to a great extend.. Better the dns address faster you resolve your ip. Also the dns server plays only in the beginning part of the connection only, as it converts some ''WWW.somesite.com'' into some ''100.100.200.50''. When the system gets the corresponding ip of the url, the dns server's role ends... I don't think that it have any impact on the downloading speed though you may feel the rate diffrence during the browsing..
  
  ping all the dns servers and select the one showing minimum average RTT. 😀
  #-Link-Snipped-#
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  I am using Google DNS... 😀 Its way too awesome and faster... 😀