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Re:Google Public DNS turns 8.8.8.8 years old by mehrdadn on Saturday August 11, 2018 @07:52PM (#17742180)
> It's three times faster than 8.8.8.8

You mean 3x faster for you, right? We're talking about a geographically distributed system here... for me it's not too different. Or do you mean their DNS servers are somehow by their nature 3x faster than Google's at responding?

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Re:Google Public DNS turns 8.8.8.8 years old by jdietrich on Saturday August 11, 2018 @08:07PM (#17742229)
No, I mean faster across a broad benchmark suite from 227 globally distributed test locations. 1.1.1.1 is faster in every region - in Africa and Oceania, they're faster by over 100ms on average. It's conceivable that some users could get faster resolution from 8.8.8.8, but highly unlikely.

https://www.dnsperf.com/#!dns-resolvers

Cloudflare are a CDN company. Running a fast geographically distributed system is their core competence.

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