Namebench - Benchmark DNS servers
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http://code.google.com/p/namebench/[^] It tests relevant DNS servers for your locale, and reports on the relative speeds. It takes a few minutes to produce a report, but I can confirm it does seem to have speeded me up a bit. In my case it recommended Google Public DNS, and the instructions to switch to that are here: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using[^] - they can be used with just an IP address change if you decide to change DNS as well.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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http://code.google.com/p/namebench/[^] It tests relevant DNS servers for your locale, and reports on the relative speeds. It takes a few minutes to produce a report, but I can confirm it does seem to have speeded me up a bit. In my case it recommended Google Public DNS, and the instructions to switch to that are here: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using[^] - they can be used with just an IP address change if you decide to change DNS as well.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
+5 It reported that my "current" DNS was the fastest. And that Paypal.com and Twitter are hijacked and pointing to some other server than the one I would expect. Great tool!
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: