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Day: September 24, 2011

  • DNS Optimization

    A discussion on the MHV LUG mailing list pointed to the Gibson Research DNSBench utility. Letting it chew on all the nameservers it can find, then mulling over the results for a bit, produced this short list:

    • NY Public Library: 68.88.88.2
    • Level 3 Comm: 4.2.2.3 or .5
    • Yale: 130.132.1.10 or 11
    • NTT: 129.250.48.98

    Feed those into Network Manager (or /etc/resolv.conf) in some permuted order and away you go… at least if you’re near Poughkeepsie and using Optimum Online. Change anything and the results will differ.

    I’d been using OpenDNS at 208.67.22[02].22[02], but the new ones test out as marginally faster and are certainly more diverse. Who knew NYPL ran a DNS?