I was intrigued by Google’s recently announced DNS service. Honestly what caught my attention was the IP address they were using for the public service – 8.8.8.8. That has to be one of the easiest to type IP addresses in the IPv4 range. They haven’t triggered my flags about the end of the world surveillance paranoia that some people have every time Google sneezes too loud, and they aren’t playing games with NXDOMAIN records like OpenDNS does, which is nice.

I would recommend most casual users to switch over to it – however, I’m not planning on using Google’s DNS services at all. My local BIND servers are configured to cache DNS requests, so I get results back faster from my DNS servers (1ms, on average) than Google’s (10-20ms, on average). I may evaluate adding 8.8.8.8 as my upstream authority at some point, however.