Google announces Public DNS
Summary
Designed to replace the DNS services provided by ISPs or companies, Google says that its DNS will be faster and more secure than many other DNSs, and won't filter content.
Topics
Google has launched Google Public DNS as an alternative domain name service for any Internet user. Designed to replace the DNS services provided by ISPs or companies, Google says that its DNS will be faster and more secure than many other DNSs, and won't filter content.
According to the company's introductory information, "Google Public DNS [can] serve many DNS requests in the round trip time it takes a packet to travel to our servers and back... Google Public DNS makes it more difficult for attackers to spoof valid responses by randomizing the case of query names and including additional data in its DNS messages... Google Public DNS complies with the DNS standards and gives the user the exact response his or her computer expects without performing any blocking, filtering, or redirection that may hamper a user's browsing experience."
Users who want to try out the service and are comfortable with reconfiguring their network settings should use 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as DNS addresses, the company said.
For more, read "Google announces Public DNS" at ZDNet UK.
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Google announces Public DNS
It won't filter content, it will just put the higher paid blog spam ads at the top. No thanks. It seems that Google is trying ever so desperately to get into everyone's business, unfortunately that is going to backfire on them. No one trusts Google anymore, they are trying to get their hands into so many pots that even they don't know what to do.
Loverock Davidson3rd Dec 2009 -
Don't be surprised if they partner with ISPs
to have them use their DNS services instead of the ISPs rolling their own. That would be one less expense for the ISPs, and maybe they even make a bit of money off of it. If that happens you may need to go to another open DNS service to get away from it.
Michael Kelly3rd Dec 2009 -
Doubt it....
in the whole scheme of things DNS servers are not that much cost to an ISP.
OhTheHumanity3rd Dec 2009 -
How?
How can you put, as you said, "higher paid blog spam ads on top", using a DNS?
medezark@...3rd Dec 2009 -
You can't of course.
Loverock has two bogeymen, Linux and Google, and one savior, Steve Ballmer. He's kinda like the village idiot around here.
urbandk3rd Dec 2009 -
Good one
Haha, this one made me laugh.
It's unbelievable that someone can be so opposed
to free products it's like you really hate
people who give to charity or their blood.
Lovercock just hates Linux and all these
contributors that give their free time to make a
world a better place. I bet it really hurts him
that Google bases their technology on something
free and doesn't pay Microsoft for licences that
cost billions of dollars. And even worse, they
opensourced the wave so every company will be
able to put it on their servers for FREE, 0
profit for Steve Blamer... that's a shame...
lass237th Dec 2009 -
Easily
By redirecting incorrect DNS queries. OpenDNS already does this with Yahoo.
Then there was the article that was posted about a year ago where some Google engineers had stated that Google employees pick and choose their fave sites to appear at the top of search results, thereby eliminating any fair chance of sites getting at the top based on crawling results of their content:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/12/googlewashing_revisited/
Joe_Raby3rd Dec 2009 -
No More Microsoft Software3rd Dec 2009 -
Except
when you do an incorrect DNS entry, it likely points back to Google's search engine, instead of your default engine that your browser forwards to. That's exactly what OpenDNS does - it forwards the query to Yahoo search. Your browser is supposed to forward incorrect DNS lookups to YOUR chosen default search engine. Instead, the DNS provider is taking your DNS query, and if it doesn't resolve, it sends you to their search page which contains their advertising.
This is why I will not use third-party DNS.Joe_Raby4th Dec 2009 -
Wrong as usual
No, you don't trust Google, don't be so
egocentric, people in general love Google.
Perhaps if they run on Microsoft's servers than
you'd give them a green light.
If there weren't for Google we'd still have 10Mb
inboxes, and you could get 100Mbs for "just 50$
a year!". I will not even mention other
products. And in about a year I bet you're gonna
be really frustrated with all these Google Wave
invitations... Ah, wait, right, you at Microsoft
will not be using the latest technology, I guess
that you are a lucky one Lovercock Davison.lass237th Dec 2009 -
RE: Google announces Public DNS
No thanks! The issues I have with Google now is that they filter nothing, and they are a data-mining predatory organization.
5LitreCat3rd Dec 2009 -
You'd probably be better using OpenDNS at least for now...
Google will just speed up queries. OpenDNS allows for filtering and phishing protection.
JoeMama_z3rd Dec 2009 -
2nd
OpenDNS ftw.
"The views expressed here are mine and do not reflect the official opinion of my employer or the organization through which the Internet was accessed."
gnesterenko3rd Dec 2009 -
Not really
They still collect information that feeds into Yahoo ad results.Joe_Raby3rd Dec 2009 -
what's your point?
Your ISP's servers are perfectly capable of doing the same thing except they have enough data to make it personally identifiable wereas opendns (or google for that matter) does not.
Feature for feature you can't really beat OpenDNS even if you roll your own DNS forwarder (root queries are slllllllllllow).JoeMama_z3rd Dec 2009
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