[Discuss] Least worst Internet Service Provider in Somerville

[tmetro-blu at vl.com (Tom Metro)]

dan at geer.org wrote:
> What do those of you who specify a nameserver
> (different than your ISP's) use?

If you really want to optimize your DNS server selection, run a
benchmark. Here are a couple of messages from the BLU archives
discussing benchmarking DNS:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.boston.discuss/37806/focus=37825
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.boston.discuss/37806/focus=37825

The next best thing is to run a local caching proxy, like Dnsmasq, and
configure it with a list of DNS servers that includes your ISP's and the
ones you've seen recommended here. Dnsmasq will periodically "speed
test" the servers and pick the fastest.

 -Tom

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