Eddie On Everything » lookup http://www.eddieoneverything.com Tips & tricks on things that interest me Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:29:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Use Google Public DNS To Speed Up Your Browsing Experience http://www.eddieoneverything.com/internet/use-google-public-dns-to-speed-up-your-browsing-experience.php http://www.eddieoneverything.com/internet/use-google-public-dns-to-speed-up-your-browsing-experience.php#comments Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:41:30 +0000 eddie http://www.eddieoneverything.com/?p=1154 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

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