{"id":2610,"date":"2009-12-06T22:07:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T02:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2009-12-06T22:07:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T02:07:07","slug":"googles-public-dns-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/12\/06\/googles-public-dns-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Public DNS Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you have probably heard about it by now, but Google decided to offer a public DNS server. While some are suspicious (it <em>is<\/em> a good way to get some neat information), their reasoning appears to be, &#8220;We&#8217;re crawling pretty much the whole Internet and thus have looked up records for pretty much everybody, and we have a giant CDN in place, so we could offer really good DNS to everybody&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The documentation appears to suggest that their goal is to keep just about everything <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/speed\/public-dns\/docs\/performance.html\">in cache<\/a> and automatically refresh it when the TTL is met.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that Verizon, like Comcast, serves up their own site\/search engine when you hit a non-existent domain name. This is one of those &#8220;not a big deal&#8221; things that bugs me more than is rational. So I decided to change my router (which provides internal DNS) to use Google&#8217;s instead. It turns out that they chose <em>incredibly<\/em> easy-to-remember IPs: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you have probably heard about it by now, but Google decided to offer a public DNS server. While some are suspicious (it is a good way to get some neat information), their reasoning appears to be, &#8220;We&#8217;re crawling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/12\/06\/googles-public-dns-servers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}