What DNS service do you use? (Cloudflare, Google, Open DNS etc)

Pawnless Endgame · 29 May 2022 at 19:23

This is the bit that you stick into your router settings, usually in the "WAN" or "Internet" page e.g. 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 for Cloudflare. This is off the back of the 5G Home Broadband super-thread, where I posted an issue about my router. @Firegod replied to my post saying to try inputting Cloudflare as the DNS and that did the trick for me.

I don't think I'll change because I'm happy that Cloudflare is running pretty fast for me, but just wondered what you're all using, and pros and cons :-)

Public DNS is still fairly new stuff for me although I have changed DNS settings before when running Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi.

MrRockliffe · 29 May 2022 at 19:25

I believe cloudflare is the quickest :-)

Hence, I use it

ChrisD. · 30 May 2022 at 07:25

Quad9.

Yaayuh! · 30 May 2022 at 08:40

OpenDNS 208.67.222.222 · 208.67.220.220

BIackMagic · 30 May 2022 at 08:49

Between my ISPs and Cloudfare

Orcvader · 30 May 2022 at 09:35

Cloudflare. Used to be Google in the past before Cloudflare launched theirs. Been very reliable so far, had issues with ISP ones before.

dlockers · 30 May 2022 at 09:40

Presumably the main benefits in changing are security as 'speed' is a bit of a muchness with pre-fetching etc?

Edit: Just checked, I am using OpenDNS (222.222/220.220)

Caged · 30 May 2022 at 09:52

The ones that BT tell my Smart Hub 2 to use, because it works for me and I can't be bothered to replace it until FTTP arrives.

Glanza · 30 May 2022 at 16:41

Quad9 as they are a none profit and don't have any interest in selling user data on

haveaniceday · 30 May 2022 at 16:55

I use these

TangoEchoAlpha · 30 May 2022 at 17:22

Pi-Hole locally and Cloudflare after that

lmfy2k · 30 May 2022 at 23:45

i use https://cleanbrowsing.org/filters/ as primary and opendns as secondary

cleanbrowsing also supports DOH and DOT.

Turn · 31 May 2022 at 00:26

CloudFlare.

uvarvu · 31 May 2022 at 06:13

Quad9 here.

Pawnless Endgame · 31 May 2022 at 23:11

Cheers fellas. Cloudflare seems to be in the lead, but otherwise fairly evenly matched vs the other main ones.

haveaniceday said:
I use these

This one looks interesting. I like the idea that you can block adult sites (as I hate porn with a passion), but still allow gambling because I do play online slots, basically the online version of fruit machines.

dlockers · 31 May 2022 at 23:45

Pawnless Endgame said:
This one looks interesting. I like the idea that you can block adult sites (as I hate porn with a passion), but still allow gambling because I do play online slots, basically the online version of fruit machines.

Glanza · 1 Jun 2022 at 15:25

Pawnless Endgame said:
Cheers fellas. Cloudflare seems to be in the lead, but otherwise fairly evenly matched vs the other main ones.

This one looks interesting. I like the idea that you can block adult sites (as I hate porn with a passion), but still allow gambling because I do play online slots, basically the online version of fruit machines.

You might be interested in https://cleanbrowsing.org/filters/

Turn · 2 Jun 2022 at 01:57

Pawnless Endgame said:
This one looks interesting.

Same can be done with CloudFlare's DNS. - https://1.1.1.1/family/
1.1.1.2 for 'No Malware', and 1.1.1.3 for 'No Malware or Adult Content'

Cloudflare the quickest too - https://www.dnsperf.com/#!dns-resolvers

Dg834man · 2 Jun 2022 at 12:26

Never even bothered with alternative dns servers before i had virgin they always just worked, virgin though every now and again half the web sites would return a error for a few hours.

ChrisD. · 2 Jun 2022 at 17:54

Dg834man said:
Never even bothered with alternative dns servers before i had virgin they always just worked, virgin though every now and again half the web sites would return a error for a few hours.

They are a way for ISP or whoever to track what websites you are visiting.