Comments on: OpenDNS and Google team to speed up the web

By: Rich Day

Rich Day — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:31:41 +0000

I think this is good and will be a stepping stone along the path to improved systems, but in its current form will remain niche. The Load Balancing Systems in use by some CDNs will actually have issues making use of this more detailed data, and most CDNs are still having issues with accuracy with on the much smaller universe of Local DNS IPs.

By: Dennis Farr

Dennis Farr — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:38:32 +0000

What about IPV6? See http://www.treefrogenterprises.com for the beginnings of a plan to replace IPV6 with something less likely to destroy the world.

By: Shal

Shal — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:20:15 +0000

Come ON GigaOm! OLD NEWS IS OLD. Get your shit together and talk about something CURRENT.

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:46:57 +0000

Great idea! Now how can I disable this? (i.e., do Google/OpenDNS run any public DNS servers that don’t send the IP (where the UDP request came from) to third parties?)

By: Elliott Sims

Elliott Sims — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:16:34 +0000

Interesting idea, but if the server is shared across regions does that mean cached results for users in one region might get sent to users in a different region? This could be prevented by considering the requesting block to be part of the record, but then you lose all the benefits of having a multi-region cacheing resolver in the first place.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:06:39 +0000

This speed doesn’t come without a cost in privacy. Now every DNS query is revealing information about your location to one more hop in the chain than it used to.

By: Grocio.com Founder

Grocio.com Founder — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:43:25 +0000

David – All our offices have 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 set. Wonder if there’s anything further we need to do to fully enjoy the improvements? Also, are the benefits in millisecond range or something more shockingly apparent than even that?

By: person287

person287 — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:07:04 +0000

I actually found that both OpenDNS and Google DNS were both worse than the BT Servers, with about double the response time. Not everybody is going to get a performance increase just by changing the DNS.

By: Tom Evslin

Tom Evslin — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:59:37 +0000

Might also be a good way to implement a successor to the current e911. Location really should be a network level service.

By: David Ulevitch

David Ulevitch — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:36:46 +0000

Great article Stacey, we’re proud of what we’ve accomplished, and we know this is just the beginning.

To set the record straight though, while Verisign is a co-author of the IETF draft that all of this work is based on, and they deserve a tremendous amount of credit for that, they aren’t actually participating in the Global Internet Speedup. We certainly hope they will and would love to include them when they do.

The folks participating right now are: Google, OpenDNS, EdgeCast, CDNetworks, Comodo, BitGravity and CloudFlare.

We look forward to having more participants join on soon, and we’re happy to help anyone implement this. Ideally, every major recursive DNS service and ISP along with every major content provider will implement this.