Google Public DNS

[Regenweald]

Well if they are going to succeed in turning the web into thin clients logging into googlenet, they need to make the internet a lot faster.

I for one know that they are not datamining my life because they made a website and told me so and I know that they won't share of log my internet access because they are just too nice

Google, making the internet faster... because we love you.

[JBAlaska]

I've used OpenDNS from time to time, but I have run into issues with them not propagating new domains quickly..hopefully Google will be better at this

[Grenage]

Oh noes, they can see what sites we resolve... wait... so can any DNS provider.

No reason I'm going to trust opendns or my ISP any more than google; I appreciate that there is now another freely-usable DNS provider with the bandmwidth to cope.

[whiskeylover]

Comcast started redirecting non existing domains to their own server instead of returning a NXDOMAIN. Good think they provided a way to turn it off. I like the default "Server Not Found" page instead of a bunch of ads.

[PhoHammer]

So do I. Has anybody noticed any speed diff between the Google & OpenDNS servers?

I just switched to Google's and there is a very noticeable speed difference. Way faster.

[lovinglinux]

Slower for me. I wasn't even able to open Ubuntu forums page. Switched back to my ISP DNS.

[wavery]

I know this isn't a Google thread, but since we're talking about it...to use this type of service, would I change the DNS settings in my OS and my router? Google's How To page makes it seem like either/or.

[lovinglinux]

I know this isn't a Google thread, but since we're talking about it...to use this type of service, would I change the DNS settings in my OS and my router? Google's How To page makes it seem like either/or.

If your OS is configured to use DHCP, which is the default for Ubuntu, than you just need to change the router.

[crimesaucer]

I'm using it and so far it seems the same as OpenDNS. (I never liked being redirected to the openDNS yahoo page so at least that should be better)

[Ylon]

All my national (Italy)ISP are forced to filter (china style) DNS in order to prevent access to international poker on line rooms, and p2p sites.
So, I commonly use opendns... that google thing sound interesting: I will try some time.
Anyway, the besy way is:

sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.back
sudo gedit /etc/resolv.conf

overwrite everithing with just this

# No... definitely NetworkManager didn't generate this.
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

and

sudo chattr +i  /etc/resolv.conf

revert back:

sudo chattr -i  /etc/resolv.conf
mv /etc/resolv.conf.back /etc/resolv.conf