Google DNS Servers

December 4, 2009 0:07 am by Jal

DNS resolving is one of the crucial process of internet infrastructure that makes the web surfing possible. It works under the hood and so no one pays much attention to it. Servers associated with the process are called the DNS Servers which translates human readable commands (like a website’s name) into IP addresses. Hence, speed and efficiency of these servers come into picture. And when it’s about speed and efficiency, the internet lord is bound to mark its presence. Google has come up with their own public DNS Servers and has made its public announcement on its official blog today.

You can visit the Google Public DNS site here. This service is free and if Google’s claims are true, it’s speeds up your browsing experience along with improving security.

Use these Google DNS Servers:

Preferred DNS server: 8.8.8.8

Alternate DNS server: 8.8.4.4

Not sure, how to set up DNS Servers? Follow this guide.

“The goal of Google Public DNS is to benefit users worldwide while also helping the tens of thousands of DNS resolvers improve their services, ultimately making the web faster for everyone”, concludes the product manager Mr. Prem Ramaswami on the official blog.

Subscribe to TechExplorer, today! You must follow us on Twitter
Advertise here
Post comment as twitter logo facebook logo
Sort: Newest | Oldest

Thanks for sharing buddy

^^ Glad you liked it. Appreciated.

^^ you can also use OpenDNS. It has done a wonderful job over the years. Google's privacy policy is what concerns me

Not just OpenDNS, there are many free DNS resolvers out there. You may want to check out: List of fast DNS Resolvers.

Talking about privacy, Google says in its policy that they retain the 'temporary' log files for a period of 2 days. That's a bit fuzzy statement. But I have used Google DNS servers and I feel it does the job very nicely. So far so good.

Thanks. Changing my servers now. Hope it does some good