[AusNOG] Google DNS

[Justin Sullivan]

Here here, definitely agree laziness (or if you want to be more positive 
about it, "convenience") is a huge factor for 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4.

JS

On 15/10/2014 7:47 am, James Morgan wrote:
>> As Google and OpenDNS's resolvers seem to be relatively popular (I'm
> not completely sure why, ISPs should be running well performing
> resolvers themselves)
>
> Just on that, why are they so popular?  For me it's partially laziness.
> The addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are easy to remember, and particularly
> if you're configuring a connection on an ISP that isn't your own it's
> often a pain to go and find those details.  Internode for example has
> this five clicks deep and a long scroll off the front page (via search).
> TPG has it two clicks deep with a short scroll.  iiNet is two clicks
> with a longer scroll.  Telstra (for BigPond) is three clicks deep,
> originally leading to fairly useless information.
>
> Of course, you'll struggle to see any of these without original DNS
> settings... ;)  Maybe that's where it comes from?
>
> James.
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