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What are the best public DNS providers?
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Best public DNS providers
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Cloudflare 1.1.1.1
free
April 1, 2018
APNIC and CloudFlare
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Quad9
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Google Public DNS
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OpenDNS
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Cloudflare 1.1.1.1
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Cloudflare 1.1.1.1
My Recommendation for
Cloudflare 1.1.1.1
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Pros
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Cons
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Specs
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Con
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It's Cloudflare
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Pro
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DNS over HTTPS
This DNS serves queries over HTTPS - making it more secure and queries encrypted at rest.
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Maxim Kamalov's Experience
Maintains privacy and very fast: https://medium.com/@nykolas.z/dns-resolvers-performance-compared-cloudflare-x-google-x-quad9-x-opendns-149e803734e5
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Specs
Release Date:
April 1, 2018
Author:
APNIC and CloudFlare
Top
Con
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Has conflicts with some ISPs and routers
Because of the nature of 1.1.1.1 not being reserved - some routers use this IP address space to serve their admin web consoles. However, some manufacturers have been notified and are deploying updates.
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Privacy-focused
Being a joint effort with APNIC and CloudFlare, 1.1.1.1 aims to be more privacy-focused. They have taken a lot of steps to ensure none of your data will be in their Anycast servers.
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DecentShulsaga's Experience
It’s faster than google’s
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No privacy
US job.
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As easy to type as 8.8.8.8 and faster
This is one of those DNSes that use a rare IP range, which is using single digits to denote their IPv4 address, so keystrokes are saved. It’s also more private, fast, and surprisingly amazing.
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RickZeeland's Experience
Cloudflare scores very well amongst the public DNS providers, a good utility for benchmarking this is the free DNS Benchmark utility by Gibson Research.
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Con
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Might be slow in some areas
Some DNS queries from places like India might be slower than anticipated. But anyone from places like US or Hong Kong should be fine.
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Quad9
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Quad9
My Recommendation for
Quad9
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1
Cons
1
Top
Con
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No real privacy
Owned by US and UK and hosted around the world, based on sponsors/affiliates networks infrastructure and is filtered [aka: !censored!]. So privacy word is used only for marketing-advertising purposes.
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Google Public DNS
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Google Public DNS
My Recommendation for
Google Public DNS
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3
Pros
1
Cons
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Con
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Another way for Google to spy on you
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Pro
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Fast
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Con
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Master of anti-privacy
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OpenDNS
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OpenDNS
My Recommendation for
OpenDNS
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2
Cons
2
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Con
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No real privacy
US job.
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Failed queries redirect to search
Instead of returning a 404 error when OpenDNS can't resolve a domain name, it redirects you to a search provider.
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