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Google DNS is currently down
Google DNS appears to be having problems and has been going up and down for the last hour. So if you rely on 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 it could be the cause of some problems for you today.
- agotterer 13y agoSome good alternatives are openDNS - 208.67.222.222 or 4.2.2.2
- throwaway2048 13y agokeep in mind openDNS does nasty things like replacing NXDOMAIN replies with adservers, which breaks tons of things.
- sfdfds 13y agoIf you have an account with opendns you can turn that off, as well as do some nicer things like block adware and others (it won't stop the most determined of users but it works). Without an account opendns is no better than all the shady things many ISPs do nowadays so Google DNS and Level3 or running your own are the better options.
- bdonlan 13y ago4.2.2.[1-4] is not openDNS, it's Level3's anycasted DNS (and is not officially open to the public)
- sumguysr 13y agoThey also have DNSCrypt, the only encrypted client solution I've found.
- bifrost 13y agoGDNS has always been problematic. I monitor it from a variety of locations and its often slow and doesn't propagate changes properly sometimes. I also monitor ODNS and its ok, but not tons better. Fortunately ODNS actually pays attention to customer support issues (unlike Google) so they're likely to fix any problems. L3 DNS (4.2.2.2) is pretty much on the ball all the time, and has been like that for over a decade so I think its probably the way to go if you're not going to use your ISP provided DNS servers. Frankly the lowest latency will usually come from your ISP provided DNS servers, so using a 3rd party is really not all that useful...
- WestCoastJustin 13y agoThere is a thread on the public-dns-discuss support group [1]. The last entry says "Hello, we just confirmed that there was a short period of outage in certain east coast area. The service has been recovered by now". [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/public-dns-discuss/Y21LOZ6ms50 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/public-dns-discuss/Y...