Thread: Fastest DNS Servers in south east England
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Old 09-05-2007, 08:02   #7
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Re: Fastest DNS Servers in south east England
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Originally Posted by lordy View Post
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.
I just find the search page and shortcuts more useful than the speed
Although they are usually fast for me.

The cache check feature of opendns is also quite neat as you can force them to update their DNS
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