No matter how fast your Internet connection, you may be hitting a bottleneck in web browsing when it comes to your DNS server. Even a 10mb pipe could seem slow when browsing the web if your DNS server is taking too long to respond. A few days ago, Google announced that they are now proving public DNS servers available for all to use. This has brought new attention to the question: what’s the fastest? In this article, we’ll be covering an open-source, multiplatform tool called namebench that will scan a list of public DNS servers, including Google and others, to find which is really the best for you.
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