Find the Fastest DNS Service using Namebench DNS Benchmark Utility
Recently Google announced a Free DNS service apparently they think is one of the fastest DNS servers on the planet but just because Google says so doesn’t means its that fast indeed. Namebench a 20% Google Project lets you know which DNS would be the fastest from a whole lot of free public DNS services.
First download the application from its official page. After download run namebench, just click on Start Benchmark and it will begin testing out the free public DNS services from Google Public DNS to OpenDNS to UltraDNS. Beware the tests take around 10 to 15 minutes to complete using the default settings. After completion, the results will be presently in convenient charts displaying all the results and performance of the services.
You can see the results to my test in the screenshots above and below. By the look of things, Google DNS seems to be fastest for my connection nearly 160% faster then my ISP’s DNS server.
Nambench is a free, open-source download, works with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Give it a try we would love to see your results.
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