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[riontel]

Google is now offering a public DNS service on 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. Haven't tried it yet (I use 4.2.2.1 and .2 when I need a public DNS, don't remember who owns these, but I think it's Level3's IP range) and people are saying Google might be having some issues with their anycast but it's a handy thing to know about. Plus their addresses are way easier to remember than OpenDNS ones (208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220).

Comments

[spamsink]

Thanks, I could never remember the OpenDNS ones.

[riontel.livejournal.com]

I hear Google shelled out extra $$ for Level3's IPs instead of using their own range because they wanted something easy to remember.

[Лев Горенштейн (from livejournal.com)]

Блок 4.0.0.0 - 4.255.255.255 таки да, принадлежит Level 3 (а сервера 4.2.2.{1,2}называются vnsc-{pri,bak}.sys.gtei.net). Верайзоновский DSL как раз их по умолчанию прописывает клиентам.