On: Introducing Google Public DNS: A new DNS resolver from Google

[swombat]

For what it's worth, I've been using Level3's DNS servers for a while now, due to the fact that they have insanely low latencies:

4.2.2.1... 4.2.2.6 (or thereabouts). Not sure what Google's going to have on those. Are they gonna be even more super-duper-fast? I mean, if you look at the line-up of the best DNS servers out there, they're pretty damn fast already:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19982548-DNS-Fastest-DNS-Se...

Also, for what it's worth, I've never quite understood why you'd use OpenDNS when level3 have open DNS servers that don't redirect you to their own pages when there's a missing record...

[TallGuyShort → swombat]

>> Not sure what Google's going to have on those

Trendiness, that's what

[lanstein → swombat]

I believe those are Verizon DNS servers, actually.

[yangyang → lanstein]

  ~% whois 4.2.2.1

  OrgName:    Level 3 Communications, Inc.
  OrgID:      LVLT
  Address:    1025 Eldorado Blvd.
  City:       Broomfield
  StateProv:  CO
  PostalCode: 80021
  Country:    US
  
  NetRange:   4.0.0.0 - 4.255.255.255
  CIDR:       4.0.0.0/8
  NetName:    LVLT-ORG-4-8
  NetHandle:  NET-4-0-0-0-1
  Parent:
  NetType:    Direct Allocation
  NameServer: NS1.LEVEL3.NET
  NameServer: NS2.LEVEL3.NET
  Comment:
  RegDate:    1992-12-01
  Updated:    2009-06-19

[lanstein → yangyang]

Huh, I thought those were originally GTE's, and that they eventually became Verizon's with all the mergers and name changes. I stand corrected.

[brandon → lanstein]

No, you're spot on.

  2.2.2.4.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer vnsc-bak.sys.gtei.net.

Even though the IP space hasn't been SWIP'd to GTE/Verizon, the server(s) behind that IP are evidently theirs.