OpenDNS Launches new server in Singapore

It’s been a while since opendns powered up a new server in Singapore for DNS requests. This is great news for asian countries especially India as previously all our DNS requests were going to Europe probably London which obviously made the response time bad.

Now since there is a new server in Singapore which is pretty close by , all our DNS requests should be a lot more quicker and webpages should open up a little more quicker , you will notice the difference especially when you launch multiple webpage at a time or maybe when your on a network which uses opendns servers. There is no change in the opendns ips , the same ips ( 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 ) should route you to the Singapore server instead of the europe one.

Initially there seemed to be a few hiccups as a lot of people from asian countries including India complained that they were being routed to the Europe server even in the presence of the Singapore server. I guess all that has been resolved now.

There is a lot of debate between google DNS servers ( 8.8.8.8 ) and opendns servers as to which is better . Frankly speaking both services are reliable it depends on where you are located geographically. In Some countries google DNS might perform better whereas in the other countries opendns might perform better . But its generally recommended to use either of these servers as local ISP DNS servers are typically not secure enough and are prone to DNS attacks.So even though your computer is not attacked but if the DNS server your using gets attacked , you will be affected as you will be routed to the wrong servers.