8.8.8.8 blocked ?

[Chevron]

Unotelly's DNS is crap for general use. I know because I tried it. I only use Unotelly's DNS on the devices that need it, and leave the router with a normal DNS.

I have never ever had any issues with Unotelly's DNSs. I use them 100% of the time.

Just avoid the SA DNS and you'll be fine.

 

[Bryn]

I have never ever had any issues with Unotelly's DNSs. I use them 100% of the time.

Just avoid the SA DNS and you'll be fine.

Which DNS do you use? Surely an international DNS is just an unnecessary increase in latency?

 

[Chevron]

Which DNS do you use? Surely an international DNS is just an unnecessary increase in latency?

Remember that a DNS resolve usually only happens once, then it gets cached on your PC for a while anyway.

I normally use London/Ireland depending on if I need Dynamo or not.

 

[Bryn]

Remember that a DNS resolve usually only happens once, then it gets cached on your PC for a while anyway.

I normally use London/Ireland depending on if I need Dynamo or not.

I'm fairly ignorant about the technicalities of DNS, but I'll refer you to this post from earlier in this thread:

Nothing inherently wrong with using whichever DNS you'd like, but a geographically closer one would be better, like say 196.25.1.1 (SAIX).

E.g.
I'm pinging 8.8.8.8 at 200ms. This means that if I go to any website, there would be an additional 200ms for each resource which requires a DNS lookup, and thats only for the IP lookup, not the connection to said resource.

However, using SAIX's, that would only require an additional 4ms (my ping to there) for the lookup.

So suppose www.example.com has links to pics on www.other.com and www.another.com.

www.example.com -> +200ms
www.other.com -> +200ms
www.another.com -> +200ms

for altogether 600ms, just for the ip lookups (okay things can be done concurrently to minimise this number, but the point still stands), whereas SAIX would take altogether 12ms.

I switched from the Google DNS to Afrihost's, and web browsing feels a bit snappier as a result.