Speeding up the connection to the Internet with OpenDNS and FastCache

Every time that you access from your browser at a certain website, the first operation performed by the operating system is the resolution of 'IP address by querying a DNS server.
In terms of time, normally the question of the DNS server does not employ more than some fraction of a second, but in certain situations of traffic congestion or disruption may increase significantly until you get even impossible to make surfing the Internet.
Using OpenDNS with FastCache you can either eliminate the problems of latency and irragiungibilità DNS servers, and make the name resolution even faster and immediate.
OpenDNS DNS is a service with some very special characteristics that make it unique:

uses a distributed network of DNS servers and this makes it virtually immune to failure
filters addresses that are recognized as belonging to the servers that make spam and phishing

offer parental control as filters out adult sites
is able to intercept and reinterpret some typing errors in the domain names: typing apache.og will still redirected to apache.org

FastCache for its part will cover the actual speed the resolution of names: it is able to manage a local cache of names resolved by the DNS server and in this way will reduce over time the number of questions to the DNS server .

The setup procedure is quite simple:

Install and start FastCache
Open the console configuration FastCache and inserted as a DNS primary and secondary DNS those of OpenDNS, namely:
- 208.67.222.222
- 208.67.220.220
Go to Control Panel => Network Connections and identified the connection used for Internet access
With the right mouse button access to "Properties" Connection
Select "Internet Protocol (TCP / IP)" and click on "Properties"
Choose the option "Use the following DNS server" as the first option and specify the value "127.0.0.1"
Date "OK" and reboot your PC

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Wrote on November 20, 2007 at 14:26 in Internet

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