there's a considerable amount of value in having visibility into dns queries and performance. also interesting as we see more ipv6 content and endpoints coming online. -- steve ulrich sent from my mobile On Jan 13, 2011, at 16:39, Robert Nesius <nesius at gmail.com> wrote: > To the question of "Do I use google DNS" (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) the answer is "yes", but only for personal use. I've never had issues with it though, and when I've done ping tests to explore latency issues, the google dns servers have never been more than a few ms slower than my ISP's DNS, and sometimes they are faster. > > I've wondered why google offers free dns - I'm guessing they are logging every name they resolve and building pictures of "popularity, etc..." I wonder if it eventually feeds into their search algorithm page ranks. > > -Rob > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list