A few days prior to this Google App Engine apps that were using custom domains started redirecting to google.com for about 3 - 4 hours. (Google hasn't acknowledged that publicly yet, but did set a security flag on one of the issues on the appengine issue tracker)
Leaving politics and ideology aside, there are precedents to consider... back in 2012 Malaysia had a similar situation but the outage was wider and more pronounced.
Why anyone would use a DNS server hosted by an ad & tracking-company on another continent instead of just using the one provided to you by your ISP one hop away is beyond me.
In what bizarro world is that supposed to improve performance, security or anything?
You might have an ISP where they have professional DNS admins, significant failover and a massive deployment of local DNS caches in each neighborhood. Unfortunately, many people have ISPs where they have two servers for an entire timezone maintained by the owner's brother-in-law and, to the extent that they think of DNS at all, it's only for questions like “Can we sell advertising on NXDOMAIN replies?”
I used a nameserver tester to compare my ISP's servers with Google and OpenDNS's. OpenDNS came out on top for me at that time and I was interested in their filtering ability too so I went with that.
IIRC it was https://code.google.com/p/namebench/ that I used for the speed comparison. Just using it now I see it does a comparison with the popular global DNS providers as well as optionally local providers - it also can test for censorship.
Apparently I'm living in your bizarro world, because Google's DNS servers consistently outperform my home ISP's by a factor 2 or 3, spiking to 10, in terms of measured response time.
Unless they're lying about what they collect (https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy) I'm pretty comfortable with those terms. I would not be at all surprised if my ISP's DNS server is tracking me far more cloesly.
[+] [-] jfoster|12 years ago|reply
https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1...
Potentially related, perhaps?
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[+] [-] orvtech|12 years ago|reply
A different precedent is the fact that phishing sites for social networks have been found on Venezuela's government-operated ISP servers not that long a go http://orvtech.com/en/general/gobierno-venezolano-elecciones...
[+] [-] josteink|12 years ago|reply
In what bizarro world is that supposed to improve performance, security or anything?
[+] [-] acdha|12 years ago|reply
You might have an ISP where they have professional DNS admins, significant failover and a massive deployment of local DNS caches in each neighborhood. Unfortunately, many people have ISPs where they have two servers for an entire timezone maintained by the owner's brother-in-law and, to the extent that they think of DNS at all, it's only for questions like “Can we sell advertising on NXDOMAIN replies?”
[+] [-] pbhjpbhj|12 years ago|reply
IIRC it was https://code.google.com/p/namebench/ that I used for the speed comparison. Just using it now I see it does a comparison with the popular global DNS providers as well as optionally local providers - it also can test for censorship.
There are many DNS benchmarking tools; https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm looks quite good.
[+] [-] majke|12 years ago|reply
How about: because it's better?
[+] [-] rowyourboat|12 years ago|reply
So yes, my ISP sucks.
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