Why was I using OpenDNS?
I was doing my usual bit today, reading various tech pages on the Internet, and discovered a link to a tool called NameBench. This tool times a set of queries to international and local DNS servers, ultimately determining whether the DNS servers currently being queried are the fastest responders.
A few years ago, I was using the iiNet main DNS servers, but was having problems with some apps (IIRC Apple iTunes, and I think also YouTube on the iPhone over WiFI). A look through the Apple Support Forums gave me the hint to try the OpenDNS servers. So I did, and my problems were resolved (I think…).
Anyway, I downloaded the NameBench tool, ran it, waited about 20 minutes or so, and this was the result:
NameBench Results
Not a bad result at all, being able to speed up DNS queries by over 100%. Testing of iTunes was good, it certainly felt “snappier” when browsing the iTunes Music and App stores. I’ve since changed the DNS server settings on my iMac and broadband router.
So now I’m querying why I used OpenDNS again??