[clug] Using speedier public DNS for Internet browsing?

[Hal Ashburner]

Good point.
dnsmasq avoids this as it just forwards any dns request it hasn't seen 
before to your isp name servers.
I don't know how much of a performance boost you'll get from it.

On 17/02/2010 11:34 AM, Tom.Minchin at csiro.au wrote:
> I haven't any experience with namebench.
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> However on using non-localised DNS, one thing you will find that using DNS resolvers not from your ISP is that any local content redirection may stop working (eg unmetered content which uses the ISP's DNS resolvers to connect you to will not longer work).
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> If you use Google's then you'll find that Content Distribution Networks such as Akamai will also get confused and start giving you US sites to download rather than local Australian ones. Google has responded to this criticism by putting in an RFC to modify DNS... This too may give you grief with previously unmetered CDN content becoming metered.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:linux-bounces at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Felix Karpfen
> Sent: Wednesday, 17 February 2010 7:39 AM
> To: linux at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [clug] Using speedier public DNS for Internet browsing?
>
> I have stumbled across the following article:
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> http://maketecheasier.com/speed-up-browsing-on-all-platforms-with-
> namebench/2009/12/10
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> The title of the article says it all.
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> I note that "namebench" is a Google offering; it dates from Jan 04 and
> has been downloaded by some 6000 users since then.   Has anyone tried
> it?
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> Also, any<comments|caveats>  to using a publicly-available DNS for
> browsing. Is the cake worth the candle?
>
> Felix Karpfen
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