I'm saying speed IS a difference. You cannot claim that it "makes absolutely no difference", I just told you, the feature is uncommonly used short of websites such as forums. You seem to think that speed of a DNS lookup can be completely forgotten due to this feature, which simply isn't correct for a feature that will be used 10% of the time. Speed IS a reason to choose one service over another, so is the feature set provided by said service.
Any links you're sent via email, gchat, facebook, forums... completely negate the DNS lookup time. If I type in "Wilderssecurity.com" I don't think it prefetches it, but I'm not sure. Anyways, for me it matters a lot. Most of the sites I go to I'm linked to.
Again, that will only account for a portion of lookups, not enough to negate speed as a DNS choice. Again, most people use favourites or type domains.
I suppose they do. Most benchmarks only show a difference of a few ms though. But I suppose any criteria is valid. My only point was that caching should be kept in mind since, depending on usage, it can essentially negate lookup times.
Peace brothers! I know people use a DNS service for security reasons, but they also use a lot of (unecessary) stuff for security that slow them down. Anyway, to be honest the only one that i' ve actually tried was OpenDNS back when everybody used it (Norton and ClearCloud hadn't entered into the game yet) and it was really slow. I didn't bother to try the others, but i do test them all from time to time with Namebench and always my ISP's is the fastest by far
I had a page not work with Norton - it was a very important page about hurricane Irene. Switched back to Google DNS to see if it was just Norton and it was - the page worked fine on Google DNS.
Did it not work or was it blocked? And sometimes, when it doesn't work, isn't that because it is being blocked (due to malicious content)?
One showing the zones of Manhattan ie: whether I was in Zone A, B, or C. It gave me some error and redirected me to Norton's search or something.
You'll either see what Page42 sees or in my case and several others you get a "Host not found" error with no search bar. Sorry, I meant then domain name.
Nope, guess it's country/laws or something. I'd still recommend you give it a try, it's a very good service for the free price.
You get a special warning page, with an allow access button. It's distinctly different from the 404 page.
