Re: Y'all know Google is offering public DNS services now?

2011-10-11 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Scott Howard sc...@doc.net.au wrote: the initial release date (not actually shown in the that version as far as I can see, but it was around the same time Google announced their public DNS servers). jan 27 2011, so says the doc header...

Re: Y'all know Google is offering public DNS services now?

2011-10-11 Thread Michiel Klaver
At 22-07-2011 20:59, Michael Painter wrote: Fwiw, ol' Steve Gibson has written a small (167KB), .exe, DNS Benchmark. It's easy to add 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.4 (or any nameserver) to the .ini file from within the program . http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm --Michael There's also namebench, does

Re: Y'all know Google is offering public DNS services now?

2011-10-11 Thread Michael Painter
Michiel Klaver wrote: At 22-07-2011 20:59, Michael Painter wrote: Fwiw, ol' Steve Gibson has written a small (167KB), .exe, DNS Benchmark. It's easy to add 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.4 (or any nameserver) to the .ini file from within the program . http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm --Michael

Re: Y'all know Google is offering public DNS services now?

2011-10-11 Thread Michiel Klaver
At 11-10-2011 10:58, Michael Painter wrote: Interesting choice of URLs. I wonder how many folks are wasting their time chasing this ominous sounding a.. www.paypal.com is hijacked: 173.0.88.34, 173.0.84.2, 173.0.84.34, 173.0.88.2 --Michael I guess you selected the Alexa top1000 as

Re: Y'all know Google is offering public DNS services now?

2011-10-11 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Scott Howard sc...@doc.net.au wrote: the initial release date (not actually shown in the that version as far as I can see, but it was around the same time Google announced

Y'all know Google is offering public DNS services now?

2011-10-10 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
I saw this in a post from Travis Wise of Google yesterday. Pretty cool for those users who do not want to use their ISP's name servers, or just want to have dns resolve quickly from anywhere in the world. In either case, I think it is cool ;-] http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/ Here is the

Re: Y'all know Google is offering public DNS services now?

2011-10-10 Thread Tom Hill
On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 14:12 -0700, steve pirk [egrep] wrote: I saw this in a post from Travis Wise of Google yesterday. Pretty cool for those users who do not want to use their ISP's name servers, or just want to have dns resolve quickly from anywhere in the world. In either case, I think

Re: Y'all know Google is offering public DNS services now?

2011-10-10 Thread Scott Howard
This service has been discussed several times in the ~2 years since it was first released (including topics such as why it's bad for CDNs) The archives would be a good place to start... Scott. On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:12 PM, steve pirk [egrep] st...@pirk.com wrote: I saw this in a post

Re: Y'all know Google is offering public DNS services now?

2011-10-10 Thread Todd Underwood
not bad for CDNs anymore: http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2011/08/opendns-and-google-working-with-cdns-on-dns-speedup.ars t On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Scott Howard sc...@doc.net.au wrote: This service has been discussed several times in the ~2 years since it was first released

Re: Y'all know Google is offering public DNS services now?

2011-10-10 Thread Michael Painter
Todd Underwood wrote: not bad for CDNs anymore: http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2011/08/opendns-and-google-working-with-cdns-on-dns-speedup.ars t Fwiw, ol' Steve Gibson has written a small (167KB), .exe, DNS Benchmark. It's easy to add 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.4 (or any nameserver) to the .ini

Re: Y'all know Google is offering public DNS services now?

2011-10-10 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
Wow, consider me educated on old news. LOL I imagine it is new to many of the users on the new service they launched. I completely forgot that Nanog would probably be the first to comment and chime in when it first became available. Thanks for the information. I will definitely research the CDN

Re: Y'all know Google is offering public DNS services now?

2011-10-10 Thread John Orthoefer
I see those guys at BBNPlanet is trying to compete with them using 4.2.2.1, .2, and .3. johno On Oct 10, 2011, at 5:44 PM, Tom Hill wrote: On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 14:12 -0700, steve pirk [egrep] wrote: I saw this in a post from Travis Wise of Google yesterday. Pretty cool for those

Re: Y'all know Google is offering public DNS services now?

2011-10-10 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: John Orthoefer j...@direwolf.com I see those guys at BBNPlanet is trying to compete with them using 4.2.2.1, .2, and .3. C'mon, John; no trolling. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com

Re: Y'all know Google is offering public DNS services now?

2011-10-10 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 6:27 PM, steve pirk [egrep] st...@pirk.com wrote: Awesome link Todd - Why did I think that the resolving server would already know where network path wise the request came from. Let me post this as a comment and ask how the CDN endpoint routing is working. I would