Best DNS Server for a FASTER Browsing experience?

[ecasper]

DNS servers are the most trusted component of your web browsing experience but few people understand how they work or how their security vulnerabilities can cause you problems. I recommend that you read both What DNS Servers Do and How to Change DNS Server before you change the DNS servers your system relies upon.

Following is list of better, fast public dns servers and free dns server (as compare to your ISP / DSL / ADSL / cable DNS service providers dns servers.)

Free Public DNS Servers

=> Service provider: Sri Lanka Telecom
Public dns server address:

• 203.115.0.47
• 203.115.0.46

=> Service provider: Google
Google public dns server IP address:

• 8.8.8.8
• 8.8.4.4

=> Service provider:Dnsadvantage
Dnsadvantage free dns server list:

• 156.154.70.1
• 156.154.71.1

=> Service provider:OpenDNS
OpenDNS free dns server list / IP address:

• 208.67.222.222
• 208.67.220.220

=> Service provider:Norton
Norton free dns server list / IP address:

• 198.153.192.1
• 198.153.194.1

=> Service provider: GTEI DNS (now Verizon)
Public Name server IP address:

• 4.2.2.1
• 4.2.2.2
• 4.2.2.3
• 4.2.2.4
• 4.2.2.5
• 4.2.2.6

=> Service provider: ScrubIt
Public dns server address:

• 67.138.54.100
• 207.225.209.66

Like wise there are quite a few. But now the question is which one is the best suited DNS for me.

Well there are free utilities can help you to find the best DNS servers for your system.These benchmarking programs use their databases of DNS servers to test those that will give you the best improvement. The best performance is likely to be from from a mixture of DNS servers that are close to your location and a global DNS server that has a large database. These programs are portable (run without installation), use similar methods and provide similar results. Their reporting is very different so I recommend that you try both NameBench and DNS Benchmark.

Gibson Research Corporation DNS Benchmark is the program I prefer. It is a little more complex but provides a lot of documentation and help for each step. It does preview the servers that will be tested before you run the actual benchmark. It is a Windows program that also runs in Windows emulation (Wine) for Mac OS X and Linux.

1. Download & Install it on your PC (164kb)
2. Click on "Run Benchmark"
3. Then let the program to create for you the custom DNS list (this may take several minutes).
4. There you have it (check out the attachment).....pick the DNS with the best repose time which is the best DNS for you.

Changing your DNS servers on your local PC for a FASTER Browsing experience.

5. Now go to Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections\Local Area Connection and open connection properties.

6. Locate to "Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)" and select properties and define your top two IP addresses found with best response time as follows.
7. Now click "OK" to apply changes, you're done!!

Now don't bother calling your ISP provider's custom care for finding out the preferred DNS for you here after as they often change their IP addresses.

Cheers!

 

[Ayeshlive]

This seriously depends on your use case.
Nowadays, many web sites use CDN (Akamai, Amazon's crap and Google CE for example). They routes your requests to the closest location of the client. So use a DNS server from the USA and you'll likely get content from Akamai's USA servers rather than from Japan's or Singapoor (where close to our country).
Plus, extend your browser's DNS cache as well as global DNS cache to reduce DNS lookups.
Nothing can defeat your ISP's data quota limits. Don't get fooled with Unlimited Dialog Internet threads

Thanks for the research!

 

[ecasper]

Hi,
"Nothing can defeat your ISP's data quota limits"
Agreed!!!, This is exactly what I meant to say but CDN & DNS look ups are not the only facts when it's come to DNS resolution so still you can made a mess of ISP's data quota by directing your system DNS to free public DNS available such as google (I often see people suggest to use them). But this is a option if you're looking for wide range of access but not the speed.

I'm sorry but I'm not sure what you have meant by "Don't get fooled with Unlimited Dialog Internet threads"

Good day!