[Ham-Mac] Cool Free Utility called namebench

[David Kelly]

On Feb 14, 2012, at 11:01 AM, John Merrill wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Dick Kriss <aa5vu at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
>> If you get bored and want speed up your internet connection, try the free
>> benchmarking utility from Google called namebench.
>> 
>> http://code.google.com/p/namebench/
>> 
>> Download and run namebench to see if there are better DNS servers for your
>> location.  You may be surprised with the namebench recommendation for your
>> location.  It takes a few minutes and will run in the background while you
>> are doing other stuff.
> 
> I assume you may not run your Mac through a router? If so  you would have
> to change the router to the new DNS.

Why would you have to change anything at the router unless you have blocked outgoing DNS and only allow the router to serve DNS to internal systems?

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