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It still baffles me why would someone use Google DNS over local ISPs and 8.8.8.8 being advertised anywhere make me cringe.
by tdkl 10y ago
It still baffles me why would someone use Google DNS over local ISPs and 8.8.8.8 being advertised anywhere make me cringe.
- the_duke 10y agoBecause while I have a great and fast internet connection, my ISP's DNS is notoriously slow with constant outages.
- WildUtah 10y agoMy ISP's DNS inserts advertising into query results. Google's doesn't.
- tdkl 10y agoSorry to hear that then. I'm positive this doesn't happen in the EU though, yet we're willingly giving Google more data.
- minxomat 10y agoIt does happen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13038500 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13038500
- gulaschbrot 10y agoHappens in Germany with Deutsche Telekom.
- rrdharan 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking As far as I know Time Warner Cable/Spectrum still does this?
- toast0 10y agoMany people don't have meaningful choices of ISPs, and some ISPs only run a couple resolver clusters far away from customers, are just plain bad at running them, or are playing DNS MITM games.
- lazyant 10y agoTry namebench https://github.com/google/namebench https://github.com/google/namebench , it will give you the fastest name servers for your case (location plus usage)
- feld 10y agoBecause local ISPs are terrible at running DNS. They're slow, usually vulnerable, poorly scaled, and not very redundant. I've seen a lot of ISPs in the US have "outages" that are merely "our DNS servers are down, so everyone thinks the internet is down".
- tyingq 10y agoGoogle's cache is more likely to already be populated with the answer than any ISP other than the huge ones.
- incompatible 10y agoISPs in some countries are forced by the government to block certain websites, which they typically implement with domain name blocking.