About OpenDNS if I use a proxy server

[G73S]

My ISP which is ETISALAT in Dubai routes all its customer's connections through their proxy server: proxy1.emirates.net.ae port: 8080

even if I don't enter any proxy settings in my browser, somehow the connections still route through their proxy.

Is it true that in my case, no matter what DNS Servers I define for my router manually in the router configuration (I have a linksys E1000) or in Windows TCP/IP / Network Adapter Settings, I will still be using Etisalat's DNS and not the OpenDNS or Google DNS that I have set??

Well if that is true, then why is it that when I do set an alternate DNS server on my own and run a program called namebench, it actually detects that I am using a different DNS server and tells me that my ISPs default DNS servers are like 70% faster than the ones I am currently using?

I thought it should be the oppoosite way round

I am confused with this really

hope someone can shed some light

 

[drebo]

Why would you assume that someone else's DNS servers would be faster than your ISPs? While it is true that is sometimes the case, it's certainly not the rule.

Also, while DNS requests may not be proxied, it sounds as though any HTTP traffic is, and thus DNS will not give the the ability to view sites that they don't want you to see.

Just use your ISP's DNS servers. There really is no compelling reason not to.

 

[G73S]

Why would you assume that someone else's DNS servers would be faster than your ISPs? While it is true that is sometimes the case, it's certainly not the rule.

Also, while DNS requests may not be proxied, it sounds as though any HTTP traffic is, and thus DNS will not give the the ability to view sites that they don't want you to see.

Just use your ISP's DNS servers. There really is no compelling reason not to.

Alright thank you very much, I just read a similar article that using DNS serveers other than your ISP if you are not living in the USA is a bad idea

cheers

 

[JackMDS]

Any consumer Internet connection go first to the ISP server in most cases aspects of the ISP Proxie are transparent and you can choose your DNS server

In some places the ISPs dos not let the DNS to be an option and you have to use the Proxie which forces the DNS of their choice.

Why it is done? The answer is probably more suitable to P & N forum.