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Use of computers and computer networks is nowadays a part of everyday life. You do not use them only at home when you sit at you computer, but you can use them all the time everywhere. This can involve everything from surf to any website when you are at home, to checking your email on your mobile when you are on your way to work. Most people do not think about how it really works when they try to access a web page by typing the address into their browser, but something that most people probably notice is how long it can sometimes take to access a web page.All items which are directly connected to the IP network have a unique IP address that is used to make it possible to communicate. The IP address is either a period separated sequence of digits representing 32 bits or a colon separated sequence of digits representing 128 bits, depending on whether the address is an IPv4 or IPv6 address. Such numeric sequences are often difficult for us humans to remember therefore, the domain name system (DNS) was constructed. DNS makes it possible for us to write addresses in a textual format to access an item stored in a device connected to the network. DNS can be seen as a directory for the network and can be compared to a telephone directory, where if you know the name of a person can find his or her phone number.This thesis will describe how the various address translations are done by using DNS. It will also examine how much impact DNS has on the experienced delay from the time you type a web page address in the address bar of your browser to the actual time you reach the website. A survey of DNS performance will be presented to investigate how much delay can be reduced by using one of Sweden's two most well-known public DNS servers (Google Public DNS and OpenDNS) instead of the normal default DNS server provided by one's Internet service provider (ISP).The survey will also show how the DNS lookup waiting time changes at different times of day and different days of the week. The purpose of this work is to provide a basic explanation of what DNS is and increase the understanding of how an everyday user in a simple way can make their network usage more effective by getting their DNS lookups to occur faster.The conclusion from this thesis is that the alternative DNS server, Google Public DNS has the fastest DNS lookup time for this particular computer which the measurement was carried on. But this tells us nothing about whether the case for any other network users because the observed DNS performance has a large extent dependent on the ISP you are connected to, and what place you are at.