RE: anyone know what powers "google public DNS?"

Dean Anderson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.djbdns
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It looks like it keeps a big cache, probably 'pre-primed' with popular 
queries.  Did some testing with namebench recently...

DNS resolver is something google could be very fast at, since it knows 
what people are looking for, and can use that to keep the cache 
populated.



		--Dean

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Mike Sands wrote:

> My understanding is that it is a custom application written by google staff. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Nicol [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 2:10 PM
> To: djbdns
> Subject: anyone know what powers "google public DNS?"
> 
> http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/
> offers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 for public use.
> 

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