Want to surf faster but you don’t want to pay for it ?
Well, here are a couple of things you can do :
Use OpenDNS as your DNS servers.
OpenDNS is a free DNS service that provides faster DNS resolving, all you have to do is use 208.67.222.222 as primairy dns server and 208.67.220.222 as secundary server and your set !
To check if everything is ok just surf to welcome.opendns.com and if you see the welcome page all settings are ok. You can also register at www.opendns.com and use shortcuts and many more… .
For more information checkout www.opendns.com .
Add url’s to Windows’ DNS.
Windows (XP) has a DNS server of is own, only, you have to add the url’s yourself.
Navigate to your Windows folder – System32 – drivers -etc . There you will find a couple of files, one of them being hosts (no extention). If you open this file in a text editor you can add urls and the IP adress. You just have to format them like this :
(IP) (URL)
0.0.0.0 domain.com
72.14.219.191 matthiasvanneste.blogspot.com
Just make sure that there is at least one space between IP and URL. And this way you can create your own DNS. You will also find other DNS alike files like networks. Here you can add (the same priciple) internal network hosts with their IP address.
Disable Caching of negative url’s.
Your browser also caches wrong url’s for an amount of time. This slows down surfing because he will try those first, but they result in a new DNS request so time wasted. To avoid your browser caching wrong (or negative) url’s go to your register editor (run->regedit) and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE – SYSTEM – CurrentControlSet – Services – Dnscache – Parameters and create a new DWORD value. Give it the name “NegativeCacheTime” (without quotes) and give it the value 0. Now your browser wil hold wrong url in cache for 0 seconds, so not… This wil help speed up surfing.
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