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<blockquote data-quote="DeepWeb" data-source="post: 815401" data-attributes="member: 63811"><p>[USER=72439]@Burrito[/USER] I have a local resolver and used to have Hurricane Electric, Sprintlink, Level3, Neustar, Google DNS and Norton ConnectSafe. I tried them all for weeks. I was obsessed trying to find the best among them. I have to vouch for Cloudflare. It is the only one that will give you a consistently low result. The others will occasionally have a faster 1st result, but Cloudflare is fast if you look up a familiar domain or a foreign domain and the latter is really what makes the difference. If you ever travel to a site that people don't usually visit, it resolves probably 10x faster than the others including Google. The only exception I would say is Hurricane Electric because they have a fascinating IPv6 backbone and a massive database. But they rely solely on their system. I have been in situations where websites wouldn't resolve because Hurricane Electric didn't have the domain and IP... And I don't know what they are doing with my DNS queries. Sprintlink and Google DNS are phony about their privacy policy too. So it really only leaves Cloudflare. Also remember that good DNS servers will actually give second priority to pings and first priority to queries. They will also delay packages if you spam them with queries from your IP. Real world experience, I have to give it to Cloudflare because of their reliability and consistent performance. Also don't bother with OpenNIC. Most unreliable DNS servers in the universe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DeepWeb, post: 815401, member: 63811"] [USER=72439]@Burrito[/USER] I have a local resolver and used to have Hurricane Electric, Sprintlink, Level3, Neustar, Google DNS and Norton ConnectSafe. I tried them all for weeks. I was obsessed trying to find the best among them. I have to vouch for Cloudflare. It is the only one that will give you a consistently low result. The others will occasionally have a faster 1st result, but Cloudflare is fast if you look up a familiar domain or a foreign domain and the latter is really what makes the difference. If you ever travel to a site that people don't usually visit, it resolves probably 10x faster than the others including Google. The only exception I would say is Hurricane Electric because they have a fascinating IPv6 backbone and a massive database. But they rely solely on their system. I have been in situations where websites wouldn't resolve because Hurricane Electric didn't have the domain and IP... And I don't know what they are doing with my DNS queries. Sprintlink and Google DNS are phony about their privacy policy too. So it really only leaves Cloudflare. Also remember that good DNS servers will actually give second priority to pings and first priority to queries. They will also delay packages if you spam them with queries from your IP. Real world experience, I have to give it to Cloudflare because of their reliability and consistent performance. Also don't bother with OpenNIC. Most unreliable DNS servers in the universe. [/QUOTE]
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