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DNS Hacks To Increase Your Browsing Speed

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There is perhaps nothing more painful than having a slow internet connection in the modern world and it is even more painful if you have good bandwidth but it does not capitalizes the full potential of the bandwidth. One good way to make your browsing experience faster and more reliable is by hacking the Domain Name System (DNS) system. The routers and internet servers do not understand the web address that you write in your browser, such as www.google.com. The website’s address is converted in to a string of numbers which is called IP address, such as 74.125.224.72. DNS server is the one which transforms a web address into an IP address. If your ISP’s connection with the DNS server is slow then it does not matter how big your bandwidth is since the full potential cannot be utilized as the DNS lookup will be slow. Three ways are suggested in the following text to hack the DNS lookup process to make it faster by not using your ISP’s DNS server. OpenDNS’s Premium DNS service