In Google’s ongoing efforts to make the web faster and more efficient the company has recently announced a new service called Google DNS. Many are unaware of the DNS system and how it makes the internet operate in the background. When one types in wikipedia.org, you would naturally expect to have Wikipedia’s home page load up, however the process on actually getting to that page is far more complex as your pc will make several DNS lookups using your ISP’s dns service to convert the address of Wikipedia to a numerical IP address and resolve the request to Wikipedia’s servers. DNS (Domain Name System) is like the great big phonebook of the internet which resolves alpha numeric web addresses into numerical IP addresses.

Google’s new DNS service, in direct competition to OpenDNS’s service claims to make the internet experience faster and more secure. Google asserts that it wont store personal and sensitive data of it’s DNS users. To make use of Google DNS, one has to simply alter thier system DNS addresses to point to Google’s servers, by entering 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as thier IP Address. It’s likely that your system is set to automatically acquire your ISP’s DNS address by using the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol or DHCP for short. You will obviously have to disable this function to make use of the manually configured Google DNS service.

It’s clear Google is really interested in web usage experience as the Google DNS is thier latest attempt and speeding it up, recently Google aslo proposed a new internet protocol to replace HTTP, dubbed SPDY which was said to be 50% faster than that of the decades old HTTP protocol.

Tags: Google, html, Internet, Open Source, Software, Technology, Web

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