Which is better 1.1.1.1 or 8.8 8.8 for gaming?

Which DNS is best for gaming?

I'm playing around with the idea of setting up my own DNS server on my network.

I'm wondering which DNS software is best for gaming. I currently use FreeDNS and I don't find it to be particularly laggy or slow. The DNS server has its own IP address on my network and I can use that to easily switch between the DNS server and other DNS servers when they're not working (I use WDS for Windows updates).

My current DNS server is in the picture. It uses OpenDNS for the dns-01, and OpenDNS for the rest of the network.

My first question is this: what is better for gaming? I can't imagine there would be a lot of benefits to switching to OpenDNS for the main DNS server, unless you're going to run OpenDNS on a dedicated machine. As I've mentioned, I'm not bothered by the latency, but I'm wondering if OpenDNS would somehow be faster or more efficient in some way? I'm also interested in hearing about your experiences with your current DNS solution, and any suggestions or reasons why you think it might be bad for gaming. There are several factors in play with the two. Both have their pluses and minuses, it really depends on your environment.

DNS can play a major factor in how good or bad your game experience is. Not all games and users play nicely with OpenDNS. For example, in Starcraft II if you use the Battle.net overlay, it makes Starcraft II not play well with OpenDNS. You can try to manually fix the settings, but that doesn't always work.

Performance is very different. The most powerful gaming rigs, when they do have OpenDNS as the primary DNS server, will still perform better than many other environments. However, a lot of people have issues with gaming with OpenDNS as their primary DNS server.

OpenDNS also has a free version and a business version. If you were curious to see if your game would play better with their open DNS, you could try out their open DNS for free. I'd recommend trying it out on a low traffic level and then see if you like it.

Which is better 1.1.1.1 or 8.8 8.8 for gaming?

Puzzle Pirates is a new release that's looking for feedback.

It's a very simple yet addictive puzzle game. You only control one ship in the beginning, but there are tons of different islands to explore. The goal is to collect a certain number of items before your opponents collect them. Your ship has limited health, but you can upgrade it through the use of diamonds. There are some items that you cannot collect. To get an item, you must either match a color or number. The color changes as you play, and numbers increase in value. You can play the game solo or against a friend in split screen. The split screen gameplay is great.

It's free. It's only 6.66 MB, but some PC users have reported that they had issues installing it. I'm on an i3 @2.7ghz with 16GB RAM. I have tried the direct link and no problems.

I was going to give it a try when it wasn't free but seeing this now I'm glad I didn't. I would never be downloading a free app if it had been something as simple as a "free trial" instead of a full paid app. I guess I just didn't feel right about that.

I've tried to install it several times and I get an error message saying that it's unable to locate the SDK. It has to be something specific to Windows 8 because I installed it on a PC running Windows 7.

Just curious, I've been having problems with this one. I'm not sure if it's just me, or if it's just a problem with Windows 8 in general. But I have noticed that some apps that work perfectly on my old Win 7 (and probably any other OS for that matter) just flat out refuse to run on Win 8.

Have you tried putting it in the "Developer Mode" option, I think you can do this from the app. I am assuming you have the x86 version because it says that it's for x86, I don't know if it matters. This works on all versions of windows.

What is the fastest ipv6 DNS for gaming?

I play League of Legends for fun and i'm in a game with a bunch of other people from this board.

So the way to go in most situations is 6DNS, however I was wondering is there any DNS that can respond faster than normal 6DNS DNS servers? I'm doing research to see what DNS providers support IPv6, or how they respond and if there's a difference between a provider that does and doesn't support IPv6. Thanks!

2 Answers.
The big problem with DNS in general for gaming is the round trip. As someone else mentioned, even most modern games tend to send data up to a default UDP port, and those datagrams often have to traverse a significant portion of your network.

What is more, the UDP header is only 64 bytes long, while the packet itself is potentially several times that large. For these reasons, it is not possible to "ping" for speed. In practice, ping times for a server from the average home internet connection are usually on the order of 10-20 seconds, more for longer distances.

If you have an actual performance problem, there are still some things you can do. If you have a relatively fast ISP connection, you could potentially set up BIND on your server with ipv6 enabled. Then, you can tell the router on your home network to send all requests on your home connection to your BIND server, so that those packets are routed through the server and off your home connection. Since the latency of the home connection is likely much shorter than the latency of a typical ISP connection, this would reduce your ping time significantly.

In theory, it might even be possible to get more performance out of your local internet connection by setting up a cache for the "ping" queries. The difficulty is that you'd need to be reasonably certain of being able to resolve the target domain in less than the time it takes to send a packet.

Another alternative is to use a proxy. Proxies are commonly used to connect behind firewalls and NAT devices, and proxies generally do better at "ping" because they're basically caching a copy of the DNS zone files that the user is requesting.