gistfile1.txt

It's worth pointing out that these results come from Lawrence, KS and my ISP is Sunflower Broadband.

+-------------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| Domain                  | Your ISP   | Google     | 4.2.2.2    | OpenDNS    | DNS Adv.   |
+-------------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| lifehacker.com          |     3 msec |    39 msec |    26 msec |    35 msec |    49 msec |
+-------------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| facebook.com            |     2 msec |    41 msec |    26 msec |    40 msec |    50 msec |
+-------------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| manu-j.com              |     1 msec |    38 msec |    26 msec |    35 msec |    48 msec |
+-------------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| reddit.com              |    17 msec |    38 msec |    28 msec |    36 msec |    49 msec |
+-------------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| tb4.fr                  |     1 msec |    41 msec |    27 msec |    35 msec |    50 msec |
+-------------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| bbc.co.uk               |     1 msec |    38 msec |    31 msec |   142 msec |   149 msec |
+-------------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+

gistfile2.txt

This one is slightly modified just to get one of Sunflowers name servers directly (to prevent my router from caching). Thanks to Matt (juice) for pointing this out.

+-------------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| Domain                  | Your ISP   | Sunflower  | 4.2.2.2    | OpenDNS    | DNS Adv.   |  |
+-------------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| lifehacker.com          |     1 msec |     8 msec |    37 msec |    24 msec |    40 msec |    47 msec |
+-------------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| facebook.com            |     1 msec |     9 msec |    38 msec |    25 msec |    34 msec |    48 msec |
+-------------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| manu-j.com              |     1 msec |    59 msec |    38 msec |    24 msec |    40 msec |    49 msec |
+-------------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| reddit.com              |    14 msec |    12 msec |    38 msec |    72 msec |    36 msec |    52 msec |
+-------------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| tb4.fr                  |     3 msec |   164 msec |    37 msec |    34 msec |    35 msec |    52 msec |
+-------------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| bbc.co.uk               |     1 msec |     8 msec |    39 msec |    26 msec |    38 msec |    47 msec |
+-------------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+

test_dns.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# I made a few changes just to support Mac but the original comes from:
#   http://www.manu-j.com/blog/opendns-alternative-google-dns-rocks/403/
#
isp=$(dig +noall +stats 2>&1 | awk '$2~/^SERVER:$/{split($3,dnsip,"#");print dnsip[1]}');
m="-------------------------------------------------------------------------------";
s="                                                                               ";
h="+${m:0:25}+${m:0:12}+${m:0:12}+${m:0:12}+${m:0:12}+${m:0:12}+";
header=("Domain${s:0:23}" "Your ISP${s:0:10}" "Google${s:0:10}" "4.2.2.2${s:0:10}" "OpenDNS${s:0:10}" "DNS Adv.${s:0:10}");
echo "${h}";
echo "| ${header[0]:0:23} | ${header[1]:0:10} | ${header[2]:0:10} | ${header[3]:0:10} | ${header[4]:0:10} | ${header[5]:0:10} |";
echo "${h}";
for i in "lifehacker.com" "facebook.com" "manu-j.com"  "reddit.com" "tb4.fr" "bbc.co.uk";
do
  ii="${i}${s:23}";
  echo -n "| ${ii:0:23} |";
  for j in "${isp}"  "8.8.8.8"  "4.2.2.2" "208.67.222.222" "156.154.70.1";
  do
    r="${s:10}$(dig +noall +stats +time=9 @${j} ${i} 2>&1 | awk '$2~/^Query$/{print $4" "$5}')";
    echo -ne " ${r:${#r}-10} |";
  done
  echo -ne "\n${h}\n";
done