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Experimenting with Alternate DNSs
I'm not really versed on the kind of things you do, but does your post mean that you would not recommend the use of Cloudflare for a DNS service for the average user?
Maybe I should return to Google's. It's always worked well. Cloudflare's did seem to be a little faster than Google's, but that was only on that one day. It hasn't since. Perhaps the system just didn't have that many people on at the time. The sites I've seen talking about Cloudflare only reference a fairly small difference between the two, and with us already having high latency the small difference (30ms, give or take) probably isn't all that noticeable in real practice.
GabeU wrote:I'm not really versed on the kind of things you do, but does your post mean that you would not recommend the use of Cloudflare for a DNS service for the average user?
Not sure what was really causing it, so it's more of a use at your own risk, your milage may vary.
Well, I don't know if it had anything to do with Cloudflare's DNS, but a little while ago I was having a heck of a time signing into DirecTV's site to pay my bill. After a bunch of tries and getting error messages and such, I changed the HughesNet modem back to Google's DNS, unplugged the same, flushed the computer's DNS cache, shut it down, restarted the modem, then the computer, and everything worked just fine.
I'm sticking with Google's DNS.
