DNS Servers?

Question

How can i find out what to make my dns server to have a fast connection to a certain server on the internet. Like if i was playing an online game with a server in canada, what numbers should i put that would get me a faster connection to that server?
Sorry if this doesn't make any sense.

Answer 1

your DNS "connection" is provided through your internet service provider (ISP). You need to have a DNS address in order to connect to the internet or to someone else that is not on the same network. If you are playing a game with someone else in canada and yall are having a problem with connection, it might not be your internet, it might be those canadians fault!

Answer 2

Qwest Dns Servers

Answer 3

DNS stands for Domain Name Services and has nothing to do with your actual connection to another machine.



Your computer only 'understands' numbers. When you type a name into your web browser, for example, the first thing that happens is a DNS request to 'translate' that name into an IP address, which is a number. Once your computer has the IP address of the machine you're trying to connect to, DNS is no longer involved in the connection.



So, with that in mind, the problem with your connection isn't the DNS. It's latency (slowness) between your computer and the other one. The simplest solution is to try to find a host server closer to you. Otherwise, you might try connecting at different times, occasionally you can get faster connections at off peak times.



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Answer 4

1) The choice of DNS servers only affects the speed with which you make the initial connection. (It's just a way for the computer to get the IP address from the name of the server. After that it just uses the IP address.)



2) The fastest DNS server for you is almost always your own provider's DNS server, because you're connected to it at the highest speed.



(DNS requests only occur when you connect - once you connect, you not only don't use a DNS server, you don't use one at all.)

Answer 5

I used to have an ISP located in Ohio. I live in Oregon. They had a local dialup number for me, but the DNS they wanted me to use was theirs in Ohio. Traceroute showed me that it was 5 or 6 hops from me (that is, I went through 5 routers to get there, and 5 back). Since a DNS gets queried a lot, my internet service was sluggish.



Eventually it occurred to me that they didn't have any of their own network facilities, but instead leased service from the big telcomm vendors, Qwest in my case. After all, that's the only local dialup service here. Once I realized that I looked for routers on Qwest's lines that were closer to me. I found them just one hop away, in Seattle. My round-trip ping times to that DNS are under 20msec, sometimes around 10!. Dramatically faster internet. I finally upgraded to DSL Broadband with QWest, and was pleased to see that the DNS they recommend is exactly the one I had found and used for dialup.



So, call your ISP and find out what DNS they recommend, and then do a traceroute to that DNS from your computer. Pay attention to the output because it will tell you who is actually providing the lines that you use first. (As I said, in my case it was Qwest.) Then search for a DNS on that communication vendor's network. I just used Google to search for "Qwest DNS", but you should use your comm vendor's name instead of "Qwest". Then use traceroute to find the closest one, and Ping to verify it is the fastest.



If all this seems like a little too much, then look at OpenDNS's offerings. If you specify their DNS, it will automatically actually assign the one of theirs that is the closest to you. It's still worth doing the other stuff first, I think. In my case, Qwest's DNS is still faster then the OpenDNS server, even though both are in Seattle.



http://www.opendns.com/