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How to Speed Up Internet Surfing with Better-Responding DNS Servers

When you're busy working away and getting things done, the last thing you want to wait on is your browser. It's true. There are a number of ways to speed up your internet connection, but did you know that you can surf the Web faster just by using a more responsive Domain Name System (DNS) server? Since DNS response time happens to be a significant factor in the loading speed of your web pages, it's definitely beneficial to you to learn how to speed up internet with responsive DNS servers.

DNS is in fact a service that translates domain names into IP addresses, which simplifies the job of a Web surfer. Thus, for the convenience of us Internet users, we will generally type the domain in the web browser's URL bar rather than the actual IP address, which can be a tad bit difficult to recall. The undertaking of the actual DNS server is to translate the information and to send back the answer, which is the IP address for the domain name, to the user. There are a few ISP's which have inefficient DNS servers, which can be detrimental to the speed at which your web pages load. That said, I'll gladly share some of the free alternative DNS servers out there on the Internet that you can use with any web browser. I'll also discuss how to use them efficiently.

Now, setting your PC to use alternate DNS servers rather than your ISP's is an easy change, which works well in XP, Vista, and Windows 7 OS's. Here, however, I'll only be revealing how to modify this in Vista and XP.

Microsoft Windows XP

1. Begin by opening Network Connections:

a. Click on Start --> Run

b. Type in ncpa.cpl

c. Point your mouse to the OK button and click on it

2. Right-click on the connection that you typically use

3. Click on Properties

4. Click on/highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

5. Point your mouse to Properties and click on it

6. Tick the option "Use the following DNS server addresses:"

7. Fill in the Preferred DNS server and Alternate DNS server with any of the servers suggested below:

OpenDNS

Preferred DNS server: 208.67.222.222

Alternate DNS server: 208.67.220.220

Google Public DNS

Preferred DNS server: 8.8.8.8

Alternate DNS server: 8.8.4.4

Verizon/GTEI

Preferred DNS server: 4.2.2.1

Alternate DNS server: 4.2.2.2

8. Click on OK

9. Finally, click on Close.

For Windows Vista Users

1. Go to Start --> Control Panel

2. Under Network and Internet, click on "View network status and tasks"

3. Then, view your Local Area Network status by clicking on the link next to it titled "View Status"

4. Click the Properties button

5. Click Continue when you get a popup that says "Windows needs your permission to continue"

6. In Local Area Connection Properties, select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/UPv4)

7. Click on the Properties button

8. In the Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) Properties window, select "Use the following DNS server addresses:"

9. Fill the Preferred DNS server and Alternate DNS server with any of the following suggested servers:

OpenDNS

Preferred DNS server: 208.67.222.222

Alternate DNS server: 208.67.220.220

Google Public DNS

Preferred DNS server: 8.8.8.8

Alternate DNS server: 8.8.4.4

Verizon/GTEI

Preferred DNS server: 208.67.222.222

Alternate DNS server: 208.67.220.220

10. Click the OK button

11. Click the Close button.

I'm sure you're already aware that recalling a domain name, such as www.google.com, is a lot easier than trying to remember a bunch of numbers in a strange format, like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, where each x is a digit. Can you just picture how much of a nuisance it would be to manage and organize your bookmarks without DNS? What's cool is that it is indeed there to make browsing much easier, but in return, there is a delay due to the translation. The amount of delay varies by ISP. Nontheless, by actually following the steps above, you should now know how to speed up internet browsing successfully by selecting and plugging in the IPs of better-responding DNS servers.

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Microsoft windows 2000 server dns server?

My server has dns installed on it and one domain (later i will add more) currently if you told your computer to go to eppforumsdn.com it will fail but if your type in my internet ip in as your primary secondary etc it will show my web site that runs on the same server the a record for the site is my internet ip so resolving will not be an issue. how can i set it up so any one in the world that type eppforumsdn.com in and find my dns server and resolve it to my ip
i meant type my internet ip in as as the dns server for your computer to resolve address from
how do i add my dns server to the global master dns list

You need to purchase the domain name from a registrar. You can use NetworkSolutions (www.netsol.com), GoDaddy (www.GoDaddy.com), or a variety of others. Once you have purchased the domain name, you will tell the registrar to use your server's IP address as the DNS master.

At that point, whenever anyone in the world needs to look up eppforumsdn.com it will look in the global DNS master list to see which DNS server controls that domain and refer them to look at your DNS server.

Then you can set up DNS aliases for www.eppforumsdn.com and any other records (you'll want an MX record set up for email).

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Windows Server 2008: clear dns server cache

Protect Your DNS Cache Without Signing a Zone

While DNSSEC technology has been specified for over a decade (though the standard was revamped about six years ago), it gained little true interest until mid-2008. With the announcement of the so-called Kaminsky vulnerability in July, 2008, momentum for DNSSEC began building and is accelerating into this year. The vulnerability can lead to cache poisoning of a name server performing lookups on behalf of DNS clients or stub resolvers.

This name server, commonly referred to as a recursive name server, accepts recursive queries from resolver clients, and issues successive queries down the domain tree to locate the source of the queried information.

Once received, the answer is cached so should another resolver request the same information, the recursive name server simply returns the cached resolution data, saving time and reducing needless resolution traffic. Thus recursive servers are also referred to as caching names servers.

By forcing the recursive name server to perform a lookup such that malicious data is stored in its cache, an attacker may direct clients requesting legitimate and popular websites to a fraudulent site. Consider some popular websites and how many of your users access them during the day and it's easy to see how quickly this defrauded cached data can spread.

And given the Kaminsky vulnerability, which is a DNS protocol vulnerability, not that of a particular DNS vendor makes this cache poisoning attack easier, how should you protect your cache? While the patches that many vendors supplied coincident with and soon after the vulnerability announcement helped mitigate the vulnerability, the only surefire solution is the use of DNSSEC.

If zone administrators managing domain name resolution for these popular websites sign their zone data with DNSSEC, and your recursive servers can be configured to "trust" them, then any fraudulent response will be identifiable and therefore prevented from entering the name server cache. To protect your recursive server caches, you must configure this trust information (trust anchors) such that signed resolutions can be deemed trustworthy or not. Both of the most popular enterprise DNS server reference implementations, namely from the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) and Microsoft Corporation support the declaration of one or more trust anchors within recursive server configurations.

And with the root zone being signed and most major top level domains (TLDs) being signed or soon to be signed, the root zone trust anchor is all that needs to be configured. Just as name resolution works from the root zone down to the authoritative zone, trust anchor validation works up to the root zone in a chain of trust.

So while the first part of the headline of this post states that you can protect your own caches in this manner by configuring trust anchor(s) and querying other servers' signed information, the second part encourages you to consider signing your own publicly reachable zone data as well. This assures that would-be attackers will be unable to impersonate your zone information for secure resolutions, maintaining your DNS information integrity. It also supports Internet "civility" which has become a hot term in public circles but has been a true hallmark of Internet designers and implementers ("netizens") from the beginnings of the Internet. Let's keep it that way!

About the Author

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