dns Archive

  • Free: Namebench DNS Benchmarking Tool

    Free: Namebench DNS Benchmarking Tool

    Posted on March 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
    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...

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  • Google Public DNS

    Google Public DNS

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    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...

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  • List of public DNS servers

    List of public DNS servers

    Posted on March 6, 2009 | 3 Comments
    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...

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  • Assign A Static IP On CentOS With A Working DNS Configuration

    Assign A Static IP On CentOS With A Working DNS Configuration

    Posted on October 9, 2008 | 1 Comment
    First we need to become in order to issue the “setup” command. [root@localhost ~]# setup A text configuration page will appear, choose “Network configuration”. Choose the intended interface that will be assigned the static IP. Remove the star in “Use DHCP” option and start assigning...

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