Why you might want to switch from your Internet Service Providers name resolution servers?
Faster browsing speed, security features, and reliability.
Security is achieved through real-time block list (RBL) of harmful websites, phishing sites, malware sites, and spyware sites.
Speed can be achieved by improved latency between client and DNS resolving server, latency between resolving servers and other name servers, under provisioning or lack of server resources to handle the load, and malicious traffic.
Reliability is achieved by using techniques such as Anycast. Anycast is a network addressing and routing methodology in which datagrams from a single sender are routed to the topologically nearest node in a group of potential receivers all identified by the same destination address. Read more about Anycast on Wikipedia.
Several players in internet cloud services now offer free DNS, some antivirus and security firms also offer DNS which can include even more security features. For example Symantec’s service offers several levels of security from which you can choose.
For a small fee other providers such as OpenDNS offer comprehensive solutions, such as blacklists, whitelists, and parental controls.*
While all of these services offer a lot of value “secure dns” is only part of an over all security program.
There are a lot of free or low cost DNS providers and here are a few from providers you may recognize.
*MLD Services is a reseller of OpenDNS.
Feel free to contact MLD Services for any of your computer and network needs.
