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Its free for personal use, and you can set your Mac or your iOS devices to use this DNS server.

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Do you ever wonder how you can click a link on a webpage and quickly zip to another page on a server halfway around the world Or send an email message to aunt Alice or uncle Bob, using just their simple email addresses All this depends on DNS, or the Domain Name System.

This is what lets your computer find macworld.com, keeping track of the fact that this domain name corresponds to an IP address of 70.42.185.230, and that numerical address is hosting Macworlds webpages.

You can find the numerical address for a website, if you want.

In your ApplicationsUtilities folder, theres a tool called Network Utility.

Click the Lookup tab, enter a domain name, then click Lookup.

You might even want to do this if youre having trouble accessing a website and need to do so in a hurry.

Sometimes DNS servers have glitches, but you can always access a website by using its numerical IP address.

If you copy the numerical address and paste it in your browsers address field, you can still visit that site, assuming the site itself isnt down.

You can use OS Xs Network Utility to find the numerical equivalent of a domain name from the Lookup tab.

As you can imagine, some DNS servers respond more quickly than others.

If you use a slow DNS server, this can make your Internet usage slower.

Its not that big a deal when youre checking email, for example.

Your email client only looks up two addresses per account: one for sending email, and another for receiving.

But when you load a webpage, there may be elements from dozens of different servers, all of which your computer needs to request from different locations.

Each of these requests needs to be answered, and the time it takes to answer them contributes to the time it takes to load a webpage.

In normal circumstances, the amount of time to send a request to a server and get a response is in the tens of milliseconds; you cant even blink your eyes that fast.

But if the DNS server your Mac uses is slow or overloaded, this can make some of your Internet activities slower.

This usually isnt a terrible problem as an extra quarter-second to load a webpage wont kill you.

But some DNS servers can be slow enough to hobble your activity.

By default, it uses the DNS server that its router connects to.

If you have standard DSL, cable, or fiber Internet access, your router connects to your ISPs DNS server.

But you can change that (and you may want to) in order to speed up some of your Internet activity.

OpenDNS claims to be the worlds fastest and most reliable DNS.

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