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dns Archive
FamilyShield – Web Filtering Made Easy
It's a fact of life that in the Internet you will find almost everything imaginable, this also includes content that may not be suitable for certain groups like minors. Geeks will have no problems with setting up a web filer, the average user may find filtering to be a challenge....
Read More Free: Namebench DNS Benchmarking Tool
It's common practice to use the DNS provided by whoever your ISP is to resolve names on the Internet, but in some cases the ISP's fail optimize or maintain their DNS server(allocate resources) resulting in poor performance.
Fortunately, a large number of alternative public DNS providers exists, the question is...
Read More Google Public DNS
Google effort to speed up the web Google now includes its own Public DNS as an alternative to ISP provided servers.
The service follows the DNS Standards set forth by the Internet community and is not intended to compete with OpenDNS which provides filtering and many other features, but also...
Read More List of public DNS servers
Domain name resolution is a necessity, some providers are better than others that's the reason why I keep a list of public DNS servers mostly for testing. The list includes the IP addresses for two public DNS providers (Level3 Communications and OpenDNS), use their services at your own discretion.
Level 3...
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