Therefore, if we ever switched to Google Public DNS, hostnames would fail to resolve.

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For instance, many users browse the web from within a corporate intranet, whose hostnames Google Public DNS does not recognize.

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With the new system users who connect through OpenDNS or Google Public DNS, or who go to a website that uses one of the participating CDNs, will get connected to the closest CDN server.

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What are the implications of Google being the largest public DNS service?

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Earlier this month, Google announced that it had become the largest public DNS service in the world, handling an average of more than 70 billion requests a day.

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