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Dec 03 2009

Google’s DNS Versus my ISP’s

In an attempt to see if it was worth it to switch to Google’s DNS, I made a quick performance comparison.

Using DNS Performance Test (DPT) , a tool that uses a random list of domain names, I tested performance over 500 (502 to be precise) queries. First, to my ISP’s servers, then to 8.8.8.8 (Google’s).

This test is far from scientific as I ran both test back to back, didn’t try multiple periods in the day, etc. But whatever, it’s fun !

ISP / Google

Worst Query time: 1166ms /  880ms

Average query time: 167ms / 145ms

Timeouts: 8 / 4

So it would seem that for now Google is slightly faster. However, this is probably nowhere near enough to convince me to give Google some even more logs to profile me, no matter what the privacy policy says..


This entry was written by Guillaume and posted on December 3, 2009 at 6:20 pm and filed under Internet. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.

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