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

MCFC_ANDY · 2 Jun 2022 at 18:19

opendns for myself for ages, never had an issue yet

Dg834man · 2 Jun 2022 at 20:55

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

So much better to let a third party do so

ChrisD. · 2 Jun 2022 at 21:46

Dg834man said:
So much better to let a third party do so

Rather a privacy based service than an ISP. I’m not entirely sure what your point is.

Dg834man · 2 Jun 2022 at 23:59

ChrisD. said:
Rather a privacy based service than an ISP. I’m not entirely sure what your point is.

Yes i get the tin foil hat brigade do it for reasons, what web sites you routinely accessing that you'd prefer your isp or the authorities didn't know about :cry:

Turn · 3 Jun 2022 at 03:59

I just use it cause it's quicker to be honest, that alone is a pretty good reason to switch.

ChrisD. · 3 Jun 2022 at 08:03

Dg834man said:
Yes i get the tin foil hat brigade do it for reasons, what web sites you routinely accessing that you'd prefer your isp or the authorities didn't know about

There is nothing tin foil hat about it whatsoever.

Feek · 3 Jun 2022 at 11:02

Cloudflare primary, google secondary. I used to run my own via pi-hole but just didn't bother reinstating it when I rebuilt the pi-holes some time ago.

Evilpaul · 3 Jun 2022 at 12:56

pi-hole using unbound

Glanza · 3 Jun 2022 at 16:06

0007 said:
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

Can't really compare them as Cloudflare unless you use Zero Trust gateway you can't control what it blocks, if you want malware blocking then Quad9 out performs them. Little oudated now but other videos have popped up more recent with the same sort of results.

DNSperf is ok for a quick over view but don't take his tests from VM in data centres as gospol, if you want the 'fastest' DNS server you need to run a tool such as https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm and see what results you get.

TheMightyTen · 11 Jul 2022 at 13:24

Evilpaul said:
pi-hole using unbound

OPNSense with Adguard Home and unbound but it gives the same effect as yours. I honestly see no reason to use an external DNS service in this day and age.

SupraWez · 11 Jul 2022 at 13:45

Router points to Cloudflare and devices point at router which caches the responses so generally quicker than going external for every device.

ChrisD. · 11 Jul 2022 at 13:55

SupraWez said:
Router points to Cloudflare and devices point at router which caches the responses so generally quicker than going external for every device.

Pretty much how most homes will be setup.

SupraWez · 11 Jul 2022 at 15:29

Surely most homes which have plug-n-played with their ISP provided router will be pointing to the ISP DNS?

ChrisD. · 11 Jul 2022 at 17:16

SupraWez said:
Surely most homes which have plug-n-played with their ISP provided router will be pointing to the ISP DNS?

Yes and where available, it’s the routers DNS which is updated to Quad 9, Cloudflare, Google etc. DHCP will still hand out the routers IP as the clients DNS server which in turn does the lookup on what you configure.