On 27 July 2010 20:47, Vannia Rajan <van...@vannia.co.cc> wrote: > 2010/7/27 ஸ்ரீ பிரதீப் <sreeprath...@gmail.com> > >> I also have a BSNL broadband connection. But I don't find any issue with >> the >> speed. In fact it is faster now. Only issue I face is with the DNS. I have >> changed the /etc/resolv.conf entry to point the opendns servers. After that >> it is normal. I get a download speed of more than 50 KBps. >> >> > Changing in /etc/resolv.conf is a temporary fix, i guess. Most routers have > the option to configure the DNS IP's. Doing it there is a permanent > solution. > > Also, I found Open-DNS servers blocking Social-Networking services some > times. So, i would suggest going for Google's Public DNS servers. > > http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/ > > 8.8.8.8 > 8.8.4.4
Beware of using Open DNS. Some of the edge caching systems relies on routing you to a nearest server based on where the DNS query originated from. And if you are using a Open DNS server, you might be sent to a cache closer to the DNS server resulting in unwanted latency. Here is a fantastic blog post that a friend of mine wrote that explains this with examples: http://blog.sandipb.net/2009/04/23/akamai-awesomeness-and-opendns-lameness/ -balaji -- http://balajin.net/blog http://flic.kr/balajijegan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
