A recent comment on an old article about Comcast’s DNS servers being really slow brought something to my attention: Google now offers a public DNS service.

Why use Google public DNS? For starters, it can really speed up your browsing experience. The average webpage requires about a dozen DNS lookups, and these lookups can be quite time consuming. That’s because when a company (your ISP) sets up a DNS server, they normally just set-it-and-forget-it. Google, on the other hand, has specifically engineered their DNS servers to be wicked fast.

There are a couple of other benefits as well, but I’ll leave that explaining to the public DNS page.

The IP addresses are easy to remember, too:

8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4