If you are facing the slow internet and want to speed up your Internet and to enhance your browsing experience, this article talks about optimizing your computer DNS services so that you get connected faster than ever. DNS stands for Domain Name System and is a database that contains resolutions for all the domain names present on the Internet.
To find out resolved addresses of any domain, you use a Domain Name System Service. It takes a little time before your DNS servers fetch resolved address of any URL. Only after your DNS service fetches resolution, your browser can connect to related websites.
The early days of the Internet saw only the Internet Service Providers offering DNS services. It was these companies who gave you the facility to lookup DNS resolutions before you could open related websites. As the need for faster and secure DNS arose, many companies started offering free or paid DNS services.
When you get a new Internet service, your ISP configures your router and/or computer to use his own DNS servers. Since there are many DNS services available, it becomes difficult to check out each one manually. This is where DNS Benchmark comes in. The free tool by Gibson Research helps you to search best DNS for you.
It runs a check of pre-listed DNS services to see which ones are the fastest and where does your own DNS service stand. It also helps you create a custom list of DNS services based on your geographical location so that you can use the best ones available for you.
Other than checking your DNS service for speed, it also checks to see if your DNS service is reliable and if it can stop redirection to custom pages. A DNS service is unreliable if it is not able to resolve domain names each time. Some DNS services redirect you to its own ad loaded page when you enter a wrong URL instead of showing you “Page Not Found” error.
There are some 50 known DNS services listed in DNS Benchmark. To run this test, click on the Nameservers tab and click Run Benchmark.
When you run this test, DNS Benchmark compares your DNS service with all these 50 DNS services and then, shows you a detailed report with data on:
1. DNS services that are not reliable for your location
2. DNS services that redirect you to a custom page
3. If your DNS servers are listed properly – in order of speed.
4. If all of your DNS servers are responding
5. DNS servers that are faster than your DNS services
Note that your DNS service refers to the DNS service you are using, currently. To know what IP addresses you are using for DNS, click on Network icon in the Windows System Tray. Click Open Networking and Sharing Center. In the window that appears, click Change Network Adaptors. In the resulting dialog, click to select your network. Right click to select Properties. In the dialog box that appears, click on IPv4 and again click on Properties. You can see your current primary and alternate DNS towards the bottom of the dialog box.
This feature of DNS Benchmark allows you to create a list of DNS servers that are optimal for your location. It checks out the different public DNS services available and sorts them in order of speed. It also marks the different rows showing the DNS servers with Red and Orange if it finds any faults with those DNS servers. It tells you the meaning of these Red and Orange DNS servers in the Conclusions tab. Based on these sorted result, you can choose to replace your current DNS service with the fastest ones available without any issues.
If you intend to change your DNS servers after running the tests, check those DNS servers for their capability to handle phishing and malware. You may run a search with the DNS owners’ name to know if they offer ample phishing protection.
For DNS Benchmark to function properly, it is necessary that it is the ONLY program using the Internet when you are running the tests. Close any applications that use Internet and then run DNS Benchmark tests.
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