The Glade 4.0

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html

I know that every so often, people have some DNS problems. Google has put up open resolvers.

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Have you tried it? How's the performance?

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Want something even faster than Google Public DNS? Run your own caching DNS resolver on your local network ~20ms down to 1ms

BIND9 representin', foo'!

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I have a local dns. It works great, except the time I had to power down the server because I had to move it, and nobody could use the internet in the house until I powered it back up. There was also the time the power went out for a minute, and my Linux box decided it needed to recheck its 1.5TB disk. It took half an hour for the box to boot, and again, nobody could resolve IP addresses during the downtime.

I have since moved the DHCP/DNS functions to a separate server that doesn't take a long time to boot.

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I have not tried them out, no. At work, my caching platform is anycast among 15 geographic locations, so it's fairly robust. If I can't resolve, I've got bigger problems. At home, I've yet to experience a dns-related outage, so I don't generally think about it.

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