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lordy · 09-05-2007, 04:03

You have a few different choices:

Your ISPs dns servers.
A local DNS server (running on your machine)
A router that caches DNS queries. (rather than passthru)
OpenDNS 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220

Depending on your particular set up anyone may be faster than any other.

Eg A local cache would seem faster, but gains may be negated by time for a single CPU machine to do context/program switching to get the info. Thats what I found running a local nameserver on a Linux machine,
My best results came from using my Router. (WRT54G with Tomato)
Also OpenDNS is pretty damn fast, but not any much faster than using NTLs dns servers, but it has a bigger cache.

09-05-2007, 04:03	#6
lordy Inactive Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 249	Re: Fastest DNS Servers in south east England You have a few different choices: Your ISPs dns servers. A local DNS server (running on your machine) A router that caches DNS queries. (rather than passthru) OpenDNS 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 Depending on your particular set up anyone may be faster than any other. Eg A local cache would seem faster, but gains may be negated by time for a single CPU machine to do context/program switching to get the info. Thats what I found running a local nameserver on a Linux machine, My best results came from using my Router. (WRT54G with Tomato) Also OpenDNS is pretty damn fast, but not any much faster than using NTLs dns servers, but it has a bigger cache.