Google Public DNS

[Tomi H�s�]

Google DNS
December 4, 2009
"Google launched a DNS resolving service called Google Public DNS that
uses Google's infrastructure to improve page loading time. A DNS resolver
converts domain names into IP addresses and this process might slow down
browsing."
"OpenDNS, a popular third-party DNS resolving service, offers more feature
than Google Public DNS: web content filtering, stats, typo correction,
shortcuts, but they're available if you create an account and enter
personal information like your name and address. When you type an invalid
URL, OpenDNS redirects you to its own search engine to show suggestions
and ads. Other free DNS resolution services: Comodo Secure DNS, OpenNIC,
DNS Advantage."
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/12/google-dns.html

Google Public DNS
"Google Public DNS is a free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution
service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider."
"To try it out:"
"* Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and
8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers or"
"* Read our configuration instructions."
"If you decide to try Google Public DNS, your client programs will perform
all DNS lookups using Google Public DNS."
http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

[Steen]

And Chrome automatically use the DNS as I understand it. Chrome is now
my default browser (and Safari is my alternative)

[DevilsPGD]

In message
<56631462283187638.9156...@news.dotsrc.org> Steen

<ist...@googlemail.com> was claimed to have wrote:

>And Chrome automatically use the DNS as I understand it. Chrome is now
>my default browser (and Safari is my alternative)

It does not appear to automatically use Google's DNS, at least from
observation here (namely that Chrome finds the internal IP for zones
hosted using split DNS models)

Rather, Google Chrome does pre-caching similar to Google's DNS, but it
does pre-caching against your locally defined DNS servers.