namebench and dns

[sybertiger]

i been using google dns 80% of the time
so yesterday i downloaded namebench again

and i got anything from xxxxxx is 50% to 350% faster than your primary DNS

most i gotten as the fastes

was
"mtnn *something*)

and "Iafrica"

ran it for multiple times but get different ever time,and decided i may use the ones that show the most in in like 15 runs?



i never seen that dns server b4? one start with 206.xxx.xx.xx

is it save/ok to use those instead of google's dns?


i will update this with the right address and name when i get home


edit: ill just download it at work and run it there

 

[ranger]

I don't agree that namebench is necessarily a good way to choose a DNS server, there are a lot of issues it doesn't take into account, and some problems with the default data set (includes lots of URLs that may not actually be accessed regularly in SA, which artificially skew the results).