Comments on: Google Public DNS Servers Launched

By: joe

joe — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:35:03 +0000

will they have any restrictions on what websites we can visit and what content we can download?

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:51:52 +0000

Google may be good or evil but I’m in Vietnam right now and if I want access to Facebook I can either install Tor or I can use Google’s DNS. I think it’s nice, even if they actually get some financial benefit from it.

By: horis insurance

horis insurance — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:26:33 +0000

Possibly the greatest read that I read in my life???

Thurman

By: mrfancypants

mrfancypants — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:32:49 +0000

u know we dont have to REALLY worry if they are killing babies or making dogs eat old peoples food and old people eat the babies until there is suddenly no one posting aboput google’s destiny as the big brother stomping step dad who beats his wife and turns his own mother away on a cold winter night.

At that point I will thoroughly enjoy being able to say

“told ya so”
“I told you”
“told ya”
“didn’t I tell you”
“I told that to you”
“that was told to you by me”
“I did the telling of that to you”

and

“damn, shoulda moved to china where they knew the game and had a sporting chance….”

ps. told ya

By: Nilesh

Nilesh — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:31:58 +0000

Google DNS is not suitable if you want to filter out sites like OpenDNS. I’ll stick with OpenDNS until Google launches their filtering service. I don’t want to be a victim of phishing, etc. !

By: Jasen

Jasen — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:42:45 +0000

google’s DNS outperforms my ISP on certain domains,
I think someone has dropped the ball.

jasen@gonzo:~$ host usmc.mil
usmc.mil has address 204.223.145.65
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
jasen@gonzo:~$ host usmc.mil 8.8.8.8
Using domain server:
Name: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
Aliases:

usmc.mil has address 204.223.145.65
usmc.mil mail is handled by 10 mx3.nmci.usmc.mil.
usmc.mil mail is handled by 10 mx4.nmci.usmc.mil.
usmc.mil mail is handled by 10 mx7.nmci.usmc.mil.
usmc.mil mail is handled by 10 mx8.nmci.usmc.mil.
usmc.mil mail is handled by 10 mx1.nmci.usmc.mil.
usmc.mil mail is handled by 10 mx2.nmci.usmc.mil.

send in the marines!

By: Jasen

Jasen — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:36:24 +0000

DNS is cleartext ypur ISP can still read the traffic if they want.

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Sat, 22 May 2010 07:48:14 +0000

This is old news; but I got some sort of problem with WP it is showing old feed item as new items.

By: Fred Obvious

Fred Obvious — Sat, 22 May 2010 06:11:35 +0000

Uh, no, they didn’t anounce this ‘today’.

They announced it in Dec of 2009 – its old news.

By: fox

fox — Fri, 21 May 2010 06:03:01 +0000

I think if you care about privacy you would never ever want to use google DNS!
I’m pretty sure google will collect everything plus more about you and what domains you are resolving.

By: kubrick

kubrick — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:21:25 +0000

The IP address is very easy to remember.
I think it’s the only advantage of this public DNS service.
My ISP DNS (Telefonica) is currently working faster.

Cheers!

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:34:05 +0000

Comodo also offers free DNS, I think that if you care about privacy you should be using an external DNS and not your ISP.

By: Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:03:55 +0000

This great man

By: Nilesh

Nilesh — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:31:29 +0000

@Nobody- If Google sells your private data then everybody should stop using Google. iTech7.com | Explore Technology

By: Nobody

Nobody — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:15:28 +0000

@Aaqil,

Are you a geeky desktop user? If so learn how to setup your own squid and SquidGuard blocking service.

OpenDNS has its own problem just like Google DNS server. Both of them sell your personal data and they do not have clear cut privacy policy.

By: Aaqil Mahmood

Aaqil Mahmood — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:43:01 +0000

@Nilesh: Na, I am missing those things with Google DNS

By: Nilesh

Nilesh — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:07:26 +0000

Does Google provide Phishing Protection, Filters, etc. like that of OpenDNS ? iTech7.com | Explore Technology

By: Aaqil Mahmood

Aaqil Mahmood — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:58:50 +0000

I hate u everyone, cruel world listen to me, how can i block bad sites by category etc with Google DSN? Like I block in OpenDNS

By: Raihan_naufal

Raihan_naufal — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:27:03 +0000

Pertamaaax .. Gan!!!,

I will try …thanks for research opendns, I hope more smootly than ISP on my country yg agak lemot gitu loh <> :P

regards,

raihan_naufal

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:42:02 +0000

@Yonit,

Yes, you will get CDN server closer to Google dns server and not to your geo location. In other words user may get common media and steaming file slowly from cdn networks.

ps. – why did you take off the url part from your comments?

It will back later on. I’ve some problem with my custom made spam filters plugin and latest version of WP. This is a temporary situation. I Will update code later on ..

@Dudley, No problem!

@Andon, nice suggestion, DJB or bind caching is for small and large network. It will speed up queries.
HTH