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I posted a comparison here, from AT&T in IL: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=977389

Short summary:

  nsping -z amazon.com 208.67.222.222
  nsping -z amazon.com 8.8.8.8
  nsping -h www.amazon.com 208.67.222.222
  nsping -h www.amazon.com 8.8.8.8
Pretty straightforward (-h tests a single A record, -z, the default, tests random labels under a zone).

OpenDNS was faster than Google for me, but slower than my own ISP. However, the numbers are under the noise floor; Google DNS is plenty fast, and bound to be more reliable than your ISP. It also doesn't break the DNS like OpenDNS does.

My point isn't that I know which is faster, but that it's really easy to just test for yourself.




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