{"id":259,"date":"2015-02-25T22:52:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T22:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeefueledcreations.com\/blog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2016-09-26T17:00:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T16:00:13","slug":"switching-dns-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeefueledcreations.com\/blog\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"Switching DNS Server"},"content":{"rendered":"

Could you benefit from switching DNS Server?<\/p>\n

A DNS (Domain Name System) server is used to lookup the address you type into the address bar and link it to an IP address of a system. The speeds at which the pages are delivered to you from different servers are varied. According the the namebench tool I could gain 34% by switching to google’s 8.8.4.4 DNS server.<\/p>\n

Here is a quick guide to finding out on a Ubuntu system.
\n
\nOpen a Terminal session
\n$ sudo apt-get install namebench<\/code><\/p>\n

$ namebench<\/code><\/p>\n

\"img1\"<\/a>Start the benchmark with the default settings. When it is complete it will display a web page with your results.<\/p>\n

\"img2\"<\/a>Choose the best DNS servers to add to your resolv.conf file<\/p>\n

$ sudo nano \/etc\/resolv.conf<\/code><\/p>\n

Add additional entries before the default 127.0.0.1 like:
\nnameserver 8.8.4.4<\/code><\/p>\n

save this file and test with commands like:
\n$ ping google.com
\n$ dig google.com
\n$ nslookup google.com<\/code><\/p>\n

If everything works … Great! You are done, go ahead and browse the Internet, see if it makes any difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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