I just read an article about Google publishing a Public DNS service. Google Public DNS is a free, global DNS resolution service. Google recommends using their Public DNS server as an alternative to your current DNS servers.

To try it out:

• Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS server

More information about Google’s Public DNS can be found here.

dig @8.8.8.8 www.booches.nl

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> @8.8.8.8 www.booches.nl
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 708
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.booches.nl.                        IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.booches.nl.         900     IN      A       83.137.194.63

;; Query time: 97 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Fri Dec 04 09:03:26 2009
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 48

I will be using Google’s DNS service for testing purposes, because I cannot imagine using them as primary DNS. There are a lot of questions, like:

• Performance
• Support

Maybe I will use them as third or fourth DNS forwarders after the DNS servers from my provider.

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