Using Google Public DNS on dedicated server / VPS

[Dmitri Petrov]

Can I use Google public DNS as main DNS on dedicated server / VPS?
Thanks.

[Yunhong Gu]

As long as your server has access to 8.8.8.8, I don't see why you cannot.

Yunhong

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Dmitri Petrov <petrovd...@gmail.com> wrote:

Can I use Google public DNS as main DNS on dedicated server  / VPS?
Thanks.

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[Paul S. R. Chisholm]

Note:

  https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq#sla

"What is the SLA for the service?"

"We are not providing an SLA for this service at this time."

Also, as mentioned here:

  https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/security

we look at "the client IPs using the most bandwidth ... each server imposes per-client-IP QPS and average bandwidth limits.... If queries from a specific source IP address exceed the maximum QPS, or exceed the average bandwidth or amplification limit consistently (the occasional large response will pass), we return (small) error responses or no response at all."

This is probably true of an DNS service you might use.

Hope this helps.  --PSRC

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Dmitri Petrov <petrovd...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Mika Suomalainen]

12.04.2012 18:50, Dmitri Petrov kirjoitti:
> Can I use Google public DNS as main DNS on dedicated server / VPS?
> Thanks.
>

Yes you can. If your VPS is running Debian based Linux distribution,
just add lines
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4
to your /etc/resolv.conf

--
Mika Suomalainen
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 4DB53CFE82A46728
Key fingerprint = 24BC 1573 B8EE D666 D10A AA65 4DB5 3CFE 82A4 6728

[Dmitri Petrov]

My research project needs to make 2-3 million full DNS requests every
day.
Can I use Google DNS for this purposes?

Google DNS work faster than my hoster's DNS servers.

Thanks.

On Apr 12, 8:53 pm, Yunhong Gu <g...@google.com> wrote:
> As long as your server has access to 8.8.8.8, I don't see why you cannot.
>
> Yunhong
>
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Dmitri Petrov

> <petrovdmitri...@gmail.com>wrote:

[Paul S. R. Chisholm]

That's probably too many; you'll likely get blocked. I think you need
to find some other DNS service.

Sorry; hope this helps you plan. --PSRC

[Dmitri Petrov]

Paul S. R. Chisholm, thank you.