Re: [Ubuntu-SG] DNS on Ubuntu question
"Jeffrey 'jf' Lim" <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 4:51 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Anand Vaidya <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> While you are at it, why not try using opendns.com's DNS service? They >> filter DNS queries for many porn, gambling, virus laden sites. I am pretty >> pleased with them , I have ditched using the local ISPs DNS servers > > Sometimes you might actually want the porn^H^H^H^Hvirus laden sites for > various reasons :-) > > Anyway, I've also considered switching to other DNS servers, eg. opendns, > google public dns, pacific internet or singnet dns, etc. Conclusion was > that switching would make overall browsing slower, as content distribution > networks based on anycast dns would serve content via non-optimum network > paths (eg, via servers in hong kong or the US instead of servers within > starhub's velocity program in singapore). how many of those would you typically come across, I wonder? Another option (heheh) would be to in this case keep the local dnses, but implement a caching resolver locally for the speed. -jf -- "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." --Richard Stallman "It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help." -- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228 _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]