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10 Best Free DNS Hosting Providers
From: https://www.keycdn.com/blog/best-free-dns-hosting-providers/
https://blog.keycdn.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/DNS-hosting-market-share-1.webp
Hurricane Electric Internet Services NS1 is a data driven DNS provider with speeds faster than many other top-tier providers CloudFlare is probably one the largest free DNS hosting providers Rackspace offers free DNS hosting and management for current customers
Best Free Public DNS Servers
From: http://www.online-tech-tips.com/cool-websites/free-dns-server/
1. Google Public DNS Google Public DNS IPv4 Addresses: 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 Google Public DNS IPv6 Addresses: 2001:4860:4860::8888 2001:4860:4860::8844 2. Level 3 DNS Level 3 Public DNS Server Addresses: 209.244.0.3 209.244.0.4 4.2.2.1 4.2.2.2 4.2.2.3 4.2.2.4 3. OpenDNS OpenDNS IP Addresses: 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 4. Norton ConnectSafe DNS A – Protection against malware, phishing sties and scam sites B – A + Pornography C – A +Pornography + Other Other will basically block sites related to mature content, gambling, hate, suicide, tobacco, drugs, alcohol, etc. Obviously, that could block a lot of sites, so us that option as you see fit. Norton DNS IP Addresses: Option A: 199.85.126.10 199.85.127.10 Option B: 199.85.126.20 199.85.127.20 Option C: 199.85.126.30 199.85.127.30 5. OpenNIC DNS Closest Tier 2 servers to your location (ordered from nearest to farthest and sorted by reliability and unique administrators): 50.116.40.226 (GA, US) 190.10.8.128 (CR) 172.81.176.146 (TOR, CA) 169.57.14.220 (MX)
DNS Whois with rtf output
From: http://www.dnsgoodies.com/
Every once in a while, many people would like to get more information on a particular domain name or need to check the DNS records or just need to find the ping speed of a hostname. As system administrators ourselves, we were constantly having to do search on a few domain names for our clients to find out their DNS entries or to help out in their domain registration issues. Therefore we built DNSgoodies.com which provides a detailed interface for anyone to come and perform tests like: Whois, DNS entries, Open relay test, Spam Database lookup, Reverse DNS, Ping, Traceroute & Abuse lookup
DNS Benchmark
From: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r24566434-DNS-Best-DNS-Servers-To-Use-With-Comcast-
DNS Benchmark: https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm
GRCs DNS Benchmark performs a detailed analysis and comparison of the operational performance and reliability of any set of up to 200 DNS nameservers (sometimes also called resolvers) at once
IP address lookup
name and address of the person registered with that number web server that a site is running on
http://ip-lookup.net/index.php
IP-Lookup helps you to find information about your current IP address or any other IP address. It supports both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
https://ipdb.at/ip/46.50.183.5
IP address search
Tools
http://code.google.com/p/namebench/
It hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer to use. namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation. namebench is completely free and does not modify your system in any way. This project began as a 20% project at Google.
https://www.ultratools.com/dnsTools
UltraTools Free DNS tests provide a robust collection of DNS Tools including DNS Hosting speed check, DNS Lookup, DNS query estimator, DNS Traversal, zone file dump and DNS Root Server Speed.
Ip Address Lookup
https://ipdb.at/ip/46.50.183.5
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