While a DNS (Domain Name System) server does the remarkably simple task of translating a domain name (i.e. domain.com) to an IP address (i.e. 1.2.3.4), it has an incredible impact on your browsing speed. After all, you can’t start viewing pages or downloading files if your computer doesn’t know what IP address it needs to go to. So if you have a slow...

If you run a website and have to tweak DNS records every now and then, you probably know that the changes can take up to several days to go through the entire internet. While this can be inconvenient, it is especially annoying if you want the changes to go through for you immediately. If you are using OpenDNS, you can force this change to go through almost...

Many of you may have changed your primary DNS servers from your ISP to use a public DNS service such as OpenDNS. If you have not done this (you would know if you did), the reason you would want to is to boost performance and provide additional security and options your ISP DNS servers do not. Google is now in this market with their Google Public DNS offering....

(Just about) every time you go to do anything on the Internet, be it check your email, visit a website or whatever, your network has to submit a DNS request to find out the target machine(s) to communicate with. So a lot of your Internet performance and security is effected by the DNS servers you use. By default, most everyone uses their ISP’s servers, but...