How to Speed Up Apple Services with AppleDNS Project

Recently a new project called ‘AppleDNS’ established on Github platform claims to have the ability to speed up Apple services. Let us look at the specific situation.
The project author said AppleDNS collected CDN IPs in China to speed up the response of App Store, Mac App Store, iTunes Store, Apple Music, iBooks and TestFligh service.

How to Use AppleDNS

1. First you need to download AppleDNS, enter AppleDNS project Github page, click the Clone or download button on the right side of the page, in the pop-up window, click Download ZIP.

2. In order to facilitate the command input, move all the items you just unpacked to the desktop.

3. Open a terminal, enter cd ~ / Desktop / AppleDNS-master

4. confirm your ISP, telecommunications users enter python fetch-timeout.py ChinaNet.json

Unicom users enter python fetch-timeout.py ChinaUnicom.json

Mobile user input python fetch-timeout.py CMCC.json

Enter the above commands after the start gun, wait a few seconds.

5. Export Hosts Configuration

python export-configure.py hosts

If you are the Apple Music user, execute the following command

python fetch-timeout.py Music.json

then replacing the IP addres of the result generated before aod.itunes.apple.com and streamingaudio.itunes.apple.com.
6. Select the Hosts configuration outputed in terminal, press Command + C to copy.

7. Enter the following command in a terminal and execute,then enter the password:

sudo vi /etc/hosts

Paste Hosts configuration just generated

Press the ESC key and type :wq, press Enter to save Hosts configuration.

8. Clear the DNS caches, enter the following code in a terminal window:

10.10.4 or later: sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

10.10 ~ 10.10.3: sudo discoveryutil mdnsflushcache

10.7 ~ 10.9.5: sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

10.6 ~ 10.6.8: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache

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