Google promises better free DNS service
Google just launched a new free DNS service that promises to be faster and more reliable than your ISP’s DNS service. It will even behave like a proper DNS server which doesn’t redirect or block misspelled or offline domains like OpenDNS which has long been a free ad-supported DNS alternative. Ironically, I just stopped using OpenDNS a few days ago because they were blocking translate.google.com (see screenshot below). The block was apparently brought to me by cheapfares.com and richgetsricher.com and others.
Honestly, I’ve been getting sick of the redirects at OpenDNS, and they couldn’t have picked a worse time to screw up. I’ll have to give Google’s new service a try, and I’ll update this post with my experience.
We only block sites you tell us to block… You can whitelist google translate or just stop blocking proxy/anonymizer sites. Google Translate is unquestionably a proxy of sorts since you can do english to english translation and bypass a lot of filtering software.
But I haven’t “told” OpenDNS to block anything.
I have been using GPDNS for a few days already and it´s been better than my ISP´s crappy DNS servers (which are down way too much).
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