Tempting: Google offers DNS service
Posted in security on 12/03/2009 07:39 pm by novakyu“Google has announced the launch of their free DNS resolution service, called Google Public DNS. According to their blog post, Google Public DNS uses continuous record prefetching to avoid cache misses — hopefully making the service faster — and implements a variety of techniques to block spoofing attempts. They also say that (unlike an increasing number of ISPs), Google Public DNS behaves exactly according to the DNS standard, and will not redirect you to advertising in the event of a failed lookup. Very cool, but of course there are questions about Google’s true motivations behind knowing every site you visit.”
Oh, this is tempting. I have some routers configured to use OpenDNS (mainly for their supposed fast response, not for the redirect to search), and I am rather tempted to re-configure them to use Google’s DNS servers.
But, frankly, I think Google already has enough of my private information. I don’t need them to know every site I visit (and no, I don’t put much stock in ToS; as much as I trust Google more than other companies, once they have the information, it’s safer to assume that they’ll have it for-ever).
Well, I guess for now, Google’s DNS servers do not offer anything beyond what OpenDNS or my local DNS servers do … so at least the decision is a no-brainer for the time being.