How To Benchmark The Fastest DNS Server From Your Location

We have talked about several alternatives to replace the DNS addresses provided by our ISP. Many interesting comments and recommendations comes from users around the internet.

But did you know, if the DNS server located too far from where you live, it will make your internet speed become worse. Although the reputations of that DNS provider very excellent and had a great achievements, it will not be able to improve the situation.

So, in today's article, I will show you how to specify a DNS server which is the fastest to use based on where you live and thus you can improve your internet speed.

Steve Gibson from grc.com has develop a small portable utility called 'DNS Benchmark', a unique, comprehensive, accurate and free Windows (and Linux/Wine) utility to determine the exact performance of local and remote DNS nameservers.

In this test I have setup DNS addresses into my computer with Google Public DNS and let's see how to perform this and what the result is.

Google Public DNS - Browsing The Web More Faster And Safer

I have written about 'Speed Up Web Browsing With OpenDNS' in my previous article and I have been using OpenDNS service ever since. Yes, the speed and the security is very good and stable, I thought that there is no other free DNS provider who are willing to offer a similar services provided by OpenDNS but surprisingly, Google has come to bring the challenge.

I slap my forehead in the first browsing using Google DNS, it's very very fast and definitely beat all the existing free public DNS and even some paid DNS too. Wow !! You should try this ...

Features of Google Public DNS include:

• Speed: Resolver-side cache misses are one of the primary contributors to sluggish DNS responses. Clever caching techniques can help increase the speed of these responses.
• Security: DNS is vulnerable to spoofing attacks that can poison the cache of a nameserver and can route all its users to a malicious website. Google Public DNS makes it more difficult for attackers to spoof valid responses by randomizing the case of query names and including additional data in its DNS messages.
  
• Validity: Google Public DNS complies with the DNS standards and gives the user the exact response his or her computer expects without performing any blocking, filtering, or redirection that may hamper a user’s browsing experience.

Interestingly, the DNS number is very simple and easy to remember, which is:

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I should have post this article much earlier, but it is okay, you still can get plenty of gifts daily. Gifts !!! Yes, here's the story ...

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Visit HERE, click the blinking gift box and click on 'Zum download' to start downloading the gift.

If, you are prompted to log in before you are allowed to download, please create a free account from HERE, click at 'Neu registrieren', fill in your details, confirm your account via email sent to you and start downloading again.

Gifts are offered differently each day, so visit the site daily ... enjoy.

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I have been very busy for the past few days and has caused me to leave my blog without newer posts. I know, my regular visitors keep coming day by day for the new articles, I am sorry for that. As you can see, I also trying to improve my blog for browsers friendly, fast loading and a few minor adjustments. With a lack of knowledge in CSS, HTML and Java Script, it consumed me a lot of time. But still not fully finished yet, there is a few tiny stuff need to be corrected. Since I only test this blog with three types of browsers which is Firefox 3, Chrome 2 and IE 8, I hope it will suit the other browsers too. Please give me a feedback if you have some kind of interface error on this blog.

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