Starting today you can drop your current ISP’s DNS service and use Googles DNS service for faster browsing. DNS servers are, in many respects, the backbone of the Internet. DNS allows you to type a domain name like www.bifuteki.com into a browser instead of a machine-readable IP number. Google argues that it wants to give consumers an alternative to their ISPs’ DNS services in order to make the Internet “faster, safer and more reliable.”
Google’s product manager Prem Ramaswami says that the company’s engineers have been working to improve DNS over the last few months. Instead of performing DNS lookups on an ISP’s DNS server, Google will use its data-center and caching infrastructure to resolve these domain names. If you want to give the DNS a try. You will need to configure your machine with these DNS Server addresses. 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. For instructions to do this setup please go here
