Google's Public DNS

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Google Speeding Up the Internet With Public DNS - ebizQ's Business Agility Watch

Privacy is a concern with virtually everything Google touches. The very nature of many of Google's core offerings is based on cataloging and indexing every possible detail about everything. To provide the best search results, it has to create the most comprehensive site index. To provide the most detailed maps, it has to painstakingly catalog every street in the world. Sometimes the goal of providing information oversteps the privacy boundary.
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Hmm...
 


Now if they would only release a free webmaster DNS resource so DNS Made Easy and UltraDNS die a painful death...
 
Screw that, I would never use a public DNS service by Google...

Level3 has had public DNS servers for years: 4.2.2.1 & 4.2.2.2 (and they're much faster)
 
Insomniac said:
Now if they would only release a free webmaster DNS resource so DNS Made Easy and UltraDNS die a painful death...
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this. They should be providing loads of public service stuff like dnsstuff for the plebs. It would cost nothing with their infrastructure and really improve their image.
 
I love open DNS - And never knew about Level3's service.... i wouldnt trust google with that much info
 
I really have no idea why any of you would use OpenDNS either...

While the OpenDNS name resolution service is free, people have complained about how the service handles failed requests. If a domain cannot be found, the service redirects you to a search page with search results and advertising provided by Yahoo!. A DNS user can switch this off via the OpenDNS Control Panel but will lose content filtering ability. This behavior is similar to that of many large ISP's who also redirect failed requests to their own servers containing advertising.

In 2007, David Ulevitch explained that in response to Dell installing "Browser Address Error Redirector" software on their PCs, OpenDNS started resolving requests to Google.com. Some of the traffic is handled by OpenDNS typo-correcting service which corrects mistyped addresses and redirects keyword addresses to OpenDNS's search page, while the rest is transparently passed through to the intended recipient.

Also, a user's search request from the address bar of a browser that is configured to use the Google search engine (with a certain parameter configured) may be covertly redirected to a server owned by OpenDNS without the user's consent (but within the OpenDNS Terms of Service). Users can disable this behavior by logging in to their OpenDNS account and unchecking "OpenDNS proxy" option. Additionally, Mozilla users can fix this problem by installing an extension or by simply changing or removing the navclient sourceid from their keyword search URLs.

This redirection breaks some non-web applications which rely on getting an NXDOMAIN for non-existent domains, such as e-mail spam filtering, or VPN access where the private network's nameservers are consulted only when the public ones fail to resolve.
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