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Today Google unveiled its new project: Google Public DNS. It means now anybody can use Google’s DNS managed servers for resolving domain names into IP addresses and back. According to Google it should speedup browsing as well as security. Hope I won’t see adsense ads once tried to load expired domain name (that’s how OpenDNS acts today).
Here are easy-to-remember Google Public DNS IP addresses: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
In order to set up Google public DNS to your Linux settings place the following lines into /etc/resolv.conf:
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4
Use command dig @8.8.8.8 linuxscrew.com to test how long it takes to resolve linuxscrew.com:
artiomix@artiomix-laptop:~$ dig @8.8.8.8 linuxscrew.com
...
;; ANSWER SECTION:
linuxscrew.com. 51844 IN A 69.164.195.222
;; Query time: 80 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Thu Dec 3 21:53:29 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 48
I googled open DNS vs. Google Puble DNS and found this story or blog titled “Google turns the page… in a bad way.” I think is worth reading.
hey… i just have knew this page. I hope it will better than other one. Thanks
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The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network.
You should check this link and you get more information