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Google DNS, Open DNS or your ISP DNS servers?

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/26

There are various arguments for using Google DNS (8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4) or Open DNS servers or not. A few are listed here:

It basically comes down to two things:

  1. DNS speed
  2. CDN speed (Contend Delivery Network providers like CloudFlare, Akamai, etc)

If your DNS server isn’t close to you, it might select a CDN server that is far from you. If you rely on CDN, then you need to weight in that factor.

This is how I decide:

  • devices not needing CDN: use Google DNS or Open DNS
  • devices needing CDN: use Namebench to pick fast DNS servers that are nearby based on Namebench reports with “Recommended configuration (fastest + nearest)”

–jeroen

This entry was posted on 2017/05/26 at 06:00 and is filed under Akamai, CDN (Content Delivery Network), Cloud, Cloudflare, DNS, Google, Infrastructure, Internet, Power User. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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