Google public DNS came to life in December of 2009 as a means to help the Internet. ISPs DNS servers can be slow, spammy, or unreliable.
Well it’s grown to significant proportions . Google today said Google public DNS handles 70 billion DNS queries a day.
Which is a lot if you think about it.
What is dns? Dns is like a phone book of sorts to the Internet. It converts a domain name like arstechnica to a series of numbers ***.***.***.*** so that your computer can understand them. We dont like #’s and computers don’t like letters.
I’m surprised that google dns is handling so much traffic. It’s just absurd how much dns traffic can be done in a day.
Want to use Google dns? Easy.
Change your dns servers to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. And restart your computer or router depending on where you set it. Nothing else has to be configured – just that easy.
Well it’s grown to significant proportions . Google today said Google public DNS handles 70 billion DNS queries a day.
Which is a lot if you think about it.
What is dns? Dns is like a phone book of sorts to the Internet. It converts a domain name like arstechnica to a series of numbers ***.***.***.*** so that your computer can understand them. We dont like #’s and computers don’t like letters.
I’m surprised that google dns is handling so much traffic. It’s just absurd how much dns traffic can be done in a day.
Want to use Google dns? Easy.
Change your dns servers to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. And restart your computer or router depending on where you set it. Nothing else has to be configured – just that easy.
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