[Cialug] google dns

[David Bierce]

Aside from data mining, it's also an opportunity to avoid lost revenue by ISPs and DNS services that redirect DNS to custom portals with advertising instead of returning no result.....

<Glares at Media Comm and OpenDNS>


It's also worth noting Level 3 has two public DNS server with easy to remember addresses.

4.2.2.1
4.2.2.2

Dave


On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:37 PM, David Champion wrote:

> Allen Kiddoo wrote:
>>> Google is now competing with OpenDNS.
>>> 
>>> Lot simpler numbers to remember for DNS  :
>>> 
>>> 8.8.8.8
>>> 
>>> 8.8.4.4
>>> 
>> 
>> whois 8.8.8.8
>> Level 3 Communications, Inc. LVLT-ORG-8-8 (NET-8-0-0-0-1)
>>                                  8.0.0.0 - 8.255.255.255
>> Google Incorporated LVLT-GOOGL-1-8-8-8 (NET-8-8-8-0-1)
>>                                  8.8.8.0 - 8.8.8.255
>> 
>> # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2009-12-02 20:00
>> 
> 
> I saw that... there's speculation that Goog is going to store all of 
> your DNS lookups for datamining, of course. But it will be handy for 
> testing DNS changes quickly, instead of waiting until the caches get 
> updated.
> 
> -dc
> 
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