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Does anyone outside the US and China really care about non-ISP DNS servers? I'm honestly not trolling. This is a legitimate question.
by trezor 17y ago
Does anyone outside the US and China really care about non-ISP DNS servers?
I'm honestly not trolling. This is a legitimate question.
- timdorr 17y agoI do when they're faster than my ISP ones (27ms vs ~60ms). Every millisecond counts. Oddly enough, when I use Comcast's DNS servers the speed at which Modern Warfare 2 connects to online games is drastically slowed compared to OpenDNS. I'm not quite sure why, but it's the most noticeable effect I've had switching over to OpenDNS.
- andyking 17y agoMy ISP's DNS server (in the UK) quite frequently goes down or slow - it's useful to have an alternative to switch to. Normally, I change to OpenDNS then change back when the ISP one is back up to avoid the ads. However, since changing to Google DNS when my ISP DNS was down a couple of weeks ago, I've not actually bothered to change back. (edit: having seen davidu's comment on this page, I may try OpenDNS again, sans ads.)
- est 17y agoWe do, only as secondary server.
- slug 17y agoI have a server/gateway outside the US and I prefer to use my own caching dns, since the ISP DNS sometimes is slow. Here in the US I configured my home router to use the google 8.8.x.x servers since my cable operator was hijacking the DNS queries, that is, until I send them an email kindly asking to remove me from their redirecting service. I assume that, sometime in the future, ISPs outside the US will start doing the same redirection, unless there's some law that prohibits them of doing so.