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Google'sDNS over ISP's DNS

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slicksilver

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Is there any advantage of using Google's DNS over my ISP's? If yes, what are the advantages and disadvantages? Thank in advance for any feedback you are able to provide.
 
On similar note, any reason not to use the root servers directly? That's what I do. I have my local DNS server setup to just forward to the root servers.
 
Red Squirrel said:
On similar note, any reason not to use the root servers directly? That's what I do. I have my local DNS server setup to just forward to the root servers.
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Internet politeness. The root servers exist purely by necessity, some server has to be the root of each zone. They're not intended to be queried by end users, and all end users querying root servers would lead to global DNS failure. No root server wants you to use it over a caching server. I'm ignoring your private caching server, because everyone having their private caching server would cause the same result.

Set yourself up with DNSSEC if you don't trust the DNS servers you use, and if you're really cautious, configure your local server to not resolve domain names that don't support DNSSEC.

If ISP servers are unreliable, untrustworthy or politically inconvenient, you use something else. Like Google, OpenDNS, Xiala or any other provider of public DNS servers that suits your needs.
 
I've run opendns for the past several years but last month I switched over to google dns and it has been fine for me.
 
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