Open DNS

I've just changed to opendns and opening on new links is noticeably faster.

Thanks to the OP for notification of this site.

 

I'm very satisfied with OpenDNS...

If they add a server in Portugal...

 

Hi ChairmanMeow,

Your, Welcome!

Don't forget to change your router to "Open DNS" also.

Take Care
Rico

 

Rico,

I don't know what this means!

 

Get started: http://www.opendns.com/start/

 

Also in the router or only in the router!?

If he only use the computer on its private LAN, he only have to define the DNS servers on the router and leave the computer definitions by default...

 

Maybe it's just me but when using Open DNS, I haven't noticed any differences so I switched back to my ISP.

Has any testing been done comparing Open DNS to various ISP's DNS servers.

 

True, but you can use any of the ICANN, OSRN or OSRC root server plugins and make it faster.

 

Now with the London based server I see a real noticeable difference in speed actually
I have always had slow connection to Comodo forum for some reason, but now it is really fast. (I live in sweden)

 

installed and look promising,very nice speed

 

i didnt even know it had a london based server my internet at home should be faster now.
how long have they had a london server?
i have used it for around two months now.
lodore

 

December 31st, 2006 - Live from London, it’s OpenDNS!

 

It still won't be necessarily faster. Latency is what makes the difference, and the latency I typically see with the OpenDNS servers is so low that it is indistinguishable from zero in practical use.

Besides, you can configure TreeWalk to use the OpenDNS servers as well. Open named.conf and add this where the forward lines exist by default:

Code:

// 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 are OpenDNS.com servers;
// Comment out the two lines below if you don't want to use them.
  forward first;
  forwarders { 208.67.222.222; 208.67.220.220; };

 

I guess the proximity to servers is important, in my case no way can Open DNS compete with Treewalk as there are no Asia specific servers for Open DNS yet.