1 month ago Google announced on their official blog that they were offering the use of their DNS server to the public.
Today, as part of our ongoing effort to make the web faster, we’re launching our own public DNS resolver called Google Public DNS, and we invite you to try it out.
Why use Google’s DNS?
The average Internet user ends up performing hundreds of DNS lookups each day, and some complex pages require multiple DNS lookups before they start loading. This can slow down the browsing experience. Google have suggested that using their DNS will speed up internet usage and browsing.
Using
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internetDNS request are usually cache, that’s good as it speeds up the lookups within the same host but sometimes we will want to clear the cache so it don’t hold the values that are no longer valid.
In Leopard (Mac OSX 10.5) or Snow Leopard (10.6)
To clear DNS cache in Leopard, just type this in your Terminal and hit enter.
dscacheutil -flushcacheTo Clear DNS cache in Mac OS X Tiger
Use the following command:
lookupd -flushcache
What is DNS?
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a naming system for computers, and anything else on the Internet. When you type a website’s name into your browser address
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