[ILUG] Good DNS in Ireland

[Pádraig Brady]

Colm Buckley wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Pádraig Brady <P at draigbrady.com
> <mailto:P at draigbrady.com>> wrote:
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>     Wouldn't that be slower that using your ISPs servers though?
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> Nope.  Because your server will cache results from previous queries.

Well on my linux desktop my brower also caches requests
(for 60s by default I think), and nscd also does I think,
and my wireless access point also caches.

I was worried about the latency of contacting a root server.
Also I'm not sure what processing is required for these servers
to do a lookup.

>     Perhaps it would be better to explicitly forward to opendns?
> 
> Nope.  OpenDNS are evil.

Why?

They do have a lot of control at the moment,
and they resolve google to their own servers,
but that's for benevolent reasons they say:
http://blog.opendns.com/2007/05/22/google-turns-the-page/

cheers,
Pádraig.