Using Google’s public DNS service as resolvers in your server

Google recently introduced this service. You can use this service as resolver for your server.

Login to your server as root

Background current resolver settings:

cp /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.backup

Open the file using vi:

vi /etc/resolv.conf

Remove the current entries by pressing dd

Put the following lines in the file:

nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

Save the file and exit (press ).

You are done!

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