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freedog96150 · 20. Mar 2010, 07:49 AM

My results, not surprisingly, listed my personal DNS server as the fastest (by far). What threw me for a loop is that my ISP's servers were a solid second. OpenDNS was third with Google pretty far down the line. Since my ISP likes to hijack the name resolution, I have resorted to using OpenDNS as my forwarder and secondary DNS server.

Object lesson is that location plays a big role and YMMV.

Thanks everyone for posting a list of tools to check DNS speeds!

20. Mar 2010, 07:49 AM	#38 (permalink)
freedog96150 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Not Vegas Posts: 111	My results, not surprisingly, listed my personal DNS server as the fastest (by far). What threw me for a loop is that my ISP's servers were a solid second. OpenDNS was third with Google pretty far down the line. Since my ISP likes to hijack the name resolution, I have resorted to using OpenDNS as my forwarder and secondary DNS server. Object lesson is that location plays a big role and YMMV. Thanks everyone for posting a list of tools to check DNS speeds!