Google Public DNS - How Google Tries To 'Speed Up' The Internet

Web surfing will get faster not with fancy new DNS services, but my patented three-point plan with set things right in a jiffy:

1. Nuke all poorly-coded script-heavy sites that bog down even quad core processors. And still don't render correctly. Bonus points for sending devs of said sites to retraining school to learn a useful trade, like floor sweeping.

2. Nuke all adservers. Not even magic DNS will speed up a page that is waiting for a couple dozen adservers, and the content cunningly timed to load last.

3. Nuke spammers, who are clogging the Internet and we're so jaded we don't even notice anymore.

BTW Alan Ralsky is in prison again. Yay. That's one. http://ecommerce-journal.com/news/25496_outstanding-stock-fr...

The article suggests that 'security validity and speed' are not the real reasons anyway, but the same old one: money.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, the data about all those DNS queries!!!!

Well i tried Google DNS for all of 15 mins 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4 if your interested, unfortunately it fell over after that 15 mins, and I had to switch back to opendns, which although it is speedy and reliable it has the cr@ppy landing page, why dont I use my isp's dns servers i hear you ask because Fairpoint DNS sucks, in fact i have a paper filling system with faster response times.

I think im safe in saying that i wouldnt even trust Fairpoint to run a telecomms network and avoid bankruptcy, ohh wait..

> I think im safe in saying that i wouldnt even trust Fairpoint to run a telecomms network and avoid bankruptcy, ohh wait..

I would say I share your pain, but that will take another 12 months or so, after Frontier takes over Verizon's lines here. :(

Let see, Verizon sells/spins off their yellow pages. The company goes bankrupt. Verizon sells/spins off their rural lines in New England. The company goes bankrupt. Verizon sells/spins off their rural lines in the mid-Atlantic states....

I think Verizon would have to pay me to take a business off their hands.

Oh, and I use OpenDNS too.

I've been using OpenDNS too for a while now. I haven't trusted ISP DNS servers for a long time, and used to just have my local bind go to the roots. I like OpenDNS though because it's reliable and gives me the nice filtering options, which are great for use at the school to complement DansGuardian and at home to help protect from people accidentally going to some of those nasty malware sites. And the stats are fun to look at at times. :)