DnsSpeeder Changelog

What's new in DnsSpeeder 2.85

Aug 16, 2012
  • You can import from files with black ip addresses to Black ip list now.
  • If you stop DNSSpeeder, it will not check online status and resolving speeder of DNS servers' any more. If you want to enable this freature, you can exit DNSSpeeder, then modify the "DisableDNSServerCheckingWhenStopped" item in DnsSpeeder.ini from 1 to 0, restart DNSSpeeder.
  • Support Vista/WIN7 operation system. You should NOT run DNSSpeeder from disk c:, you had better copy all DNSSpeeder files to disk D: or disk E: and make it run as a adminsitator.
  • Fixed a serious bug, it may make DNSSpeeder crash when it recieves illegal data from DNS servers.
  • Fixed some bugs when SOCKS5 proxy is enabled.
  • Fixed program updateing problem for version 2.80, reporting 2.80 as a newer version.
  • Fixed black ip amount problem, whatever the amount of black ip, the length of black ip list in DnsSpeeder.ini will be cut to 256 characters.
  • Fixed cache update display on the main dialog, changed to display currect updating method.
  • Fixed some interface problems under WINXP English version.
  • Fixed checking resolving speeder of DNS server, when checking is started, any menus will be cancelled.
  • Fixed two same DNS servers will appear in the listbox which is to right-up on the interface.

New in DnsSpeeder 2.80 (Jun 19, 2011)

  • Add menu to main interface,Improve Options dialog and Report dialog. Enable maximum the main dialog.
  • Add a meter to indicate the amount of DNS requests every second.
  • Support English , Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, you can modify "English.lng" to translate a new language and rename "English.lng" to other filename like "New language.lng", then email to us, we will add the new language translation to DnsSpeeder.
  • Add two tabs,one is Requests, to display all requests in detail, the other is DNS severs, to check the real DNS resolving speed of every DNS server.
  • Add r-click menu for tab Requests and tab DNS severs.
  • Add Black IP feature, some DNS servers will reply to DnsSpeeder with wrong IP addresses to hijack domains, DnsSpeeder can delete these ip addresses and
  • prevent them from entering cache.
  • Managing more DNS servers, test their resolving speed to select the fasted DNS server.
  • Improved domain and regular expresstion filtering.

New in DnsSpeeder 2.10 (Sep 21, 2010)

  • Add a full regular expressions feature to Filter dialog, and you also can set up some catalogs to distinguish from regular expresstions. Domains can be imported to domain list (one domain pe line).
  • Add a feature to find an online DNS server as the default DNS server when checking current DNS server up or down.
  • Add "Enable changing localhost DNS servers" setting on Options dialog
  • Add description for every setting on Options dialog
  • Fix a serve bug, when DnsSpeeder recieves a wrong-format DNS request or a unknown packet , it will crash.
  • Delete timeout setting on Options, remove the feature that DnsSpeeder will resoving it individually when encounters a timeout DNS record.
  • Delete updated time setting on Options dialog.

New in DnsSpeeder 2.00 (Aug 19, 2010)

  • Add a new button "Options" and a new dialog "Options" to set up some settings. Move some settings from main dialog to "Options" dialog.
  • Add a new button "Filter" and a new dialog "Filter", let user to set up some filter expressions to prohibit unsuitable domains.
  • Add a new button "Set System DNS" and a new dialog "Set System DNS", Sometimes the system DNS resovling may become abnormal after you stop dnsspeeder, it may be caused by wrong system DNS servers, you can set up correct system dns servers by "Set System DNS" feature.
  • Efficiency of dns resolving was Improved,It uses multi-thread to resolve domains, now it can resolve a large quantity of domains in a high speed.
  • Using a new file to save DNS items named "DnsItem.dat", you can import the file "DnsItem.csv" from DnsSpeeder 1.5 or 1.8.
  • Add a new feature about DNS item updating and add a new column "Update", now you can set some domains not to update, it is useful if you want to let the ip address of a domain to be same.
  • System-tray icon indicates if DnsSpeeder is offline.
  • The menu of system-tray icon was improved, "Options" and "Filter" were added.
  • When adapter is down and up again, DnsSpeeder acts properly.
  • The speed of displaying DNS items is Improved.
  • Add several new items to Performance Statistics, such as Cached DNS items,Cache Last Update,Cache Next Update,Total Run Time,Current DNS server,Queued Requests, Illegal Requests,Filtered Requests.
  • Fix treating other DNS record type as A record, any other records will be forwarded to the DNS servers.
  • Fix when you stop or close DnsSpeeder, however, you cann't access the Internet any more, when you start DnsSpeeder again, it is ok.
  • Fix a big sorting bug of the cache list, sometime when sorting, its cpu usage will be up to 50%-100%
  • Fix a serve bug, when DnsSpeeder recieves a unrequested DNS response, it will crash.