Comments for Should I use Google's new DNS services?

Comment from Brittany Brown on 2010-06-26

2010-06-26T12:43:45Z

Not related to the original topic, but I do want to reply to Charles Tilley and say that whatever you post on a publicly visible forum is always going to show up on a search engine that crawls that site, whether you like it or not. If you can VIEW the forum without signing in, so can Google. That is not private information.

Now if it were a private forum and Google crawled it, the most they can see is a few key words in the search result, if that.

But fact of the matter is, Google's search engine does what it's intended to do. It crawls the web looking for all the text in all of the websites for quick key word reference whenever you do a web search. That's just a fact of life, and I'm sure you'll find out that Bing, Yahoo! and Ask.com ALL do the same thing. They're not following you, but know that anything you post online is permanent and someone somewhere knows about it. Always. There is no such thing as online privacy.

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Comment from gurpreet singh on 2010-02-26

2010-02-26T17:41:29Z

what difference makes configuring DNS server with stattic ip address rather than DHCP server.
Thanks
Rinks

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Comment from Charles Tilley on 2009-12-27

2009-12-27T23:25:12Z

Personally, I don't know about the service that Google is offering, but I wouldn't have it if it was given to me. Google spies on people, on forums where you feel safe to express your opinion, your responses often end up as web page links. How many of you know that? I didn't for a long, long time. I was asked on a forum if I posted THIS, THIS and THIS (all underlined). I clicked onto the links and sure enough, they were my posts. I asked the person who was following me around. He posted a link for me, saying this was his friend. The link was GOOGLE. I'll never knowingly use any Google product again, after they posted my (what I thought was) confidential posts for the world to see.

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Comment from John Castle on 2009-12-20

2009-12-20T20:53:42Z

I'm living in a room where I work. My internet connection goes thru my employer's intranet access. I'm blocked from an awful lot of site for whatever reason, such as "social networking" sites. If I used the Google DNS, would that bypass the blocks on my employers intranet?

Thanks.

Probably not. There are many ways to block content - DNS is just one, and not even the most common. But you can give it a try.

21-Dec-2009

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Comment from Ravi Agrawal on 2009-12-15

2009-12-16T06:03:23Z

Slightly offtopic, but installing a DNS server on your own PC does help a lot. It saves you the process of looking up the same DNS query again and again.

Try Treewalker DNS : http://ntcanuck.com/

Ravi.

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Comment from Johnny on 2009-12-15

2009-12-16T05:49:51Z

After read of Open DNS ......
JUST CONFUSED !
so many trams which I really don't know about,
I really don't know what's talking about....
Sorry..

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Comment from mrogi on 2009-12-15

2009-12-16T00:46:05Z

OpenDNS enjoys the best DNS servers alive, dead or yet to be born. They do chicken right.

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Comment from Rich Deem on 2009-12-15

2009-12-15T23:54:43Z

I use OpenDNS servers for my router, coupled with my account settings, which blocks out all the nasty stuff (obviously optional - you are free to keep it if you like).

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Comment from Joakim Lauridsen on 2009-12-15

2009-12-15T20:10:34Z

I'm pretty sure OpenDNS has the option to turn off the feature Leo describes about not failing a lookup. I havn't done it, because I find it helpfull while browsing

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Comment from Clifford on 2009-12-15

2009-12-15T18:38:12Z

Dennis, big fan of GRC, so tried DNS Benchmark. Turns out one of the name servers was NOT working. Name Bench didn't point that out.

Thanks.

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Comment from Tom Clark on 2009-12-15

2009-12-15T17:53:13Z

Open DNS works just great for me performance wise, and especially security wise. It easily allows blocking of specific categories of web sites, blocking of specific web sites, as well as enabling of specific web sites when the category has been blocked.

I have found their categorization of web sites to be useful and correct - so it relieves some security concerns.

AND if I had youngsters at home, this could easily be another tool for "parent managed" access - all by selecting different options in the Open DNS Dashboard.

Open DNS rocks

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Comment from Dennis Arter on 2009-12-15

2009-12-15T16:48:06Z

Steve Gibson (the Spin Rite guy) has a wonderful little 175K stand-alone program to perform DNS benchmarks: http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm

It is extremely easy to use and offers advice on how to get a secure and fast connection.

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Comment from Mark on 2009-12-13

2009-12-13T17:47:05Z

I just answered my own question. Those ads that offer to sell the url come when you type in a URL registered to s squatter who buys lots of urls in hopes some migh turn out to be of value to a company later.

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Comment from Clifford on 2009-12-13

2009-12-13T16:25:16Z

The day Google DNS was out, I switched. Probably the placebo effect, but I thought page responses were faster. By the third day, I separated 3 hours to deal with a decidedly slower PC, and I am talking about a 4MB cable system, Win 7 Ultimate,8GB RAM, etc.
Found Namebench here http://code.google.com/p/namebench/
It checks your existing DNS and others to let you know the fastest ones. Changed the values in the router and done. You can find instructions here, JIC: http://www.opendns.com/support/category/2

Hope this helps someone with a Molasses PC.

Turns out my ISP was fastest and then it list 2 more. My PC is flying. Response rates are the best I have ever seen.

For those inclined, suggest you invest @ 20 minutes. It was worth my time.

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Comment from Mark on 2009-12-13

2009-12-13T15:13:21Z

With my current dns whenever I mistype a URL I get a page asking me if I want to buy that URL. Is that page a result of my dns routing? If so I'll consider changing to Google DNS as I really hate that.

Maybe. It's certainly something that can be done, but more common is that someone actually bought and registered the typo domain so it actually exists - as a page offering to sell it. In this later case DNS has nothing to do with it.

14-Dec-2009

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