rory 0 Posted January 7, 2012 Well facebook was and still is down for our entire country. Seems they changed their DNS ... and our ISP caches probably every 24 hours. We only really have 1 main ISP, which has most of the clients. Anyway didnt even know this existed until now, but google has public DNS servers you could use instead of your ISP's DNS. http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns Might come in handy sometime. I doubt google is going down anytime soon. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hardwired 0 Posted January 7, 2012 I've been putting them in as a secondary DNS entry for a while now. It certainly can't hurt reliability, I think Google has a pretty good grip on fresh DNS updates.... Often, it's faster than your ISP's DNS, too. GRC has a nice DNS benchmark utility for DNS speed here http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Flannel 0 Posted January 8, 2012 Another one I've used is 4.2.2.2, FYI. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SectorSecurity 0 Posted January 9, 2012 OpenDNS is good. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
coreyman 0 Posted January 10, 2012 There should be a list of all the free DNS services out there I had it at one time, but I usually use 4.4.4.4 and 8.8.8.8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
danger_e 0 Posted January 10, 2012 When my company changed providers, it took nearly a week for the DNS to properly propagate across all DNS providers. Google DNS picked it up after a day or two, but some others took quite a while. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fa chris 0 Posted February 2, 2012 Another one I've used is 4.2.2.2, FYI. 4.2.2.1-4.2.2.6 are all level3 dns servers, have always worked good for me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites