Google DNS faster than OpenDNS?

[slasherpunk]

OpenDNS tracert results:

C:\>tracert -d 208.67.222.222

Tracing route to 208.67.222.222 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 36 ms 40 ms 39 ms 117.195.32.1
3 35 ms 35 ms 38 ms 218.248.164.38
4 41 ms 39 ms 41 ms 218.248.255.86
5 41 ms 42 ms 41 ms 115.113.128.21
6 65 ms 67 ms 64 ms 172.31.61.210
7 183 ms 185 ms 185 ms 180.87.36.9
8 221 ms 221 ms 221 ms 180.87.12.53
9 220 ms 221 ms 221 ms 180.87.12.2
10 240 ms 233 ms 233 ms 120.29.215.29
11 292 ms 293 ms 294 ms 203.208.186.101
12 300 ms 300 ms 301 ms 203.208.151.161
13 319 ms 317 ms 320 ms 203.208.190.166
14 318 ms 323 ms 309 ms 208.67.222.222

Trace complete.

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Google DNS tracert results

C:\>tracert -d 8.8.8.8

Tracing route to 8.8.8.8 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 36 ms 39 ms 38 ms 117.195.32.1
3 37 ms 35 ms 36 ms 218.248.164.42
4 39 ms 39 ms 38 ms 218.248.255.26
5 39 ms 41 ms 58 ms 115.114.57.161
6 39 ms 49 ms 40 ms 115.113.163.70
7 41 ms 41 ms 44 ms 209.85.241.52
8 67 ms 65 ms 67 ms 209.85.251.95
9 105 ms 155 ms 104 ms 66.249.94.38
10 102 ms 103 ms 103 ms 209.85.241.173
11 103 ms 104 ms 107 ms 66.249.94.166
12 103 ms 103 ms 103 ms 8.8.8.8

Trace complete.

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Observer the time difference between the two. Does it indicate that Google DNS is faster?

By the way, I'm currently using OpenDNS on a Windows 7 PC with 3GB of RAM and a 3.99 GHz processor.

Thanks in advance.

[jingda]

Based on your results, Google DNS is faster than Open DNS. But the results may be different in other countries.

[wldake]

Not really. Tracert shows the hop count from your network to the destination network. Just because the hop count is more/less or the MS response times are more/less may not make a difference.

What do you get when querying the servers themselves? What is the query time?

--# dig @208.67.222.222 +nocmd +nocomments +noquestion +noauthority +noadditional www.daniweb.com
www.daniweb.com.        6659    IN      A       74.53.219.188
;; <strong>Query time: 21 msec</strong>
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Wed Sep 21 16:36:31 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 49

--# dig @8.8.8.8 +nocmd +nocomments +noquestion +noauthority +noadditional www.daniweb.com
www.daniweb.com.        31526   IN      A       74.53.219.188
;; <strong>Query time: 26 msec</strong>
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Wed Sep 21 16:36:37 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 49