But frankly, I doubt I would notice any difference in any of these response times, with my fast broadband connection. And the rankings do change with subsequent runs a bit. Obviously Google's namebench measures more than just response times for cached domains, to account for the longer times. These results apply to my situation alone, and are presented for illustration only. Average response times for cached domains only:
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The full results can be viewed here, to give you some idea of how namebench works.ΔΆ) Next, I ran DNS Benchmark against the same 11 servers. It identified 11 name servers in my area as good candidates, with OpenDNS (resolver2) leading the pack as "fastest and nearest".
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Google itself offers a public DNS resolver. Both can scan for the fastest resolvers in your geographic area. OpenDNS is by no means the only free DNS resolver out there, and both these programs can evaluate many others that are available. Turns out there are 2 free programs available for download that actually benchmark response times of various DNS servers (also known as resolvers), which allow you to compare OpenDNS to your ISP and others: By placing company servers in strategic locations and employing a large cache of the domain names, OpenDNS can process queries more quickly". "OpenDNS offers DNS resolution for consumers and businesses as an alternative to using their Internet service provider's DNS servers.
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Response times depend on time of day, server congestion, distance to server, and the size of the server's cache of domain names, among other things. I'm on record as stating that OpenDNS is faster, but have to admit this was based on little more than my own experience and anecdotal evidence, when I switched to it from my ISP's server.