[TriLUG] Fwd: New Public DNS from Google

[Brian Phelps]

Cool! Thanks for that tweak, thats what I'm looking for.  All my
installs use dnsmasq on the LAN for caching.

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Joseph Tate <dragonstrider at gmail.com> wrote:
> about:config network.dnsCacheEntries = 0, will make browsing a bit
> slower (but you can either use dnsmasq caching on your router or a
> very fast DNS server like google's).
>
> There's also network.dnsCacheExpiration, but I don't know what the
> units are for that field.  I set it to 0.
>
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Brian Phelps <brphelps at ieee.org> wrote:
>> No ad ridden results. Thanks Alexander!
>>
>> Now how does one get Firefox not to fail at resolving a domain if you
>> don't have internet temporarily while putting an address in, then
>> internet is restored seconds later.  It takes FF like several minutes
>> to try to actually resolve the name again and not just pretend that
>> resolving fails.  I'm totally screwed at finding this tweak through
>> googling.
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Brian Phelps <brphelps at ieee.org> wrote:
>>> How does it compare to Opendns, which returns ad ridden results when
>>> the domain cannot be resolved, and due to a strange bug in firefox
>>> claims a particular website cannot be resolved and returns ads even if
>>> it exists when you lose internet connectivity for a split second, as
>>> often happens on a laptop?
>>>
>>> Wow that wasn't even close to a sentence but more of a barely coherent
>>> ramble.  Sorry
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Alexander Ray <alexjray.ncsu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hey all,
>>>>
>>>> I thought I'd post this here for those interested,
>>>>
>>>> Google Public DNS:
>>>> http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/
>>>>
>>>> Google's doing a nice public DNS.  It's out of the Google Code/Google Open
>>>> Source division, so maybe it'll be competing with OpenDNS.
>>>>
>>>> For, the greatest part is the IPs:
>>>> 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
>>>> I can remember those :-)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> ~Alex
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