Which DNS do you use 2017

Discussion in 'polls' started by Infected, Oct 20, 2017.

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Which DNS do you use?

  1. Google DNS

    10 vote(s)
    15.2%
  2. Open DNS

    9 vote(s)
    13.6%
  3. Norton DNS

    3 vote(s)
    4.5%
  4. Comodo DNS

    1 vote(s)
    1.5%
  5. DNS Advantage

    1 vote(s)
    1.5%
  6. AdGuard DNS

    2 vote(s)
    3.0%
  7. other

    33 vote(s)
    50.0%
  8. None

    7 vote(s)
    10.6%
  1. Infected

    Infected Registered Member

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    Which DNS service do you use and why? Is it more for security or speed or both? I usually use Google DNS. But use OpenDNS occasionally.
     
  2. itman

    itman Registered Member

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    I use Verisign.
     
  3. Buddel

    Buddel Registered Member

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    I can't vote because one option is missing: NONE
    My vote: NONE:)
     
    Last edited: Oct 21, 2017
  4. roger_m

    roger_m Registered Member

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    I use my ISP's DNS servers. I don't feel the need to switch to anything else.
     
  5. bjm_

    bjm_ Registered Member

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    Verisign Public DNS
     
  6. Trooper

    Trooper Registered Member

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    Norton
     
  7. Fad

    Fad Registered Member

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    Location:
    England
    dns.watch
    censurfridns
    swiss privacy foundation
    chaos computer club

    (via Acrylic)
     
  8. TairikuOkami

    TairikuOkami Registered Member

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    Dns.Watch on PC and Adguard (dnscrypt) in browser. I wanted to use Yandex Family, but Yandex browser does not let me to pick it, though it offers multiple versions of adguard, opendns. :rolleyes:
     
  9. Minimalist

    Minimalist Registered Member

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    My ISP's DNS server and VPN provider's while connected.
     
  10. ArchiveX

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  11. Krusty

    Krusty Registered Member

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  12. MisterB

    MisterB Registered Member

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    My own adblocking, threat blocking black hole DNS server, a smart DNS service to spoof geolocation and several DNS servers that are provided by the VPN services I use. Setting up a recursive DNS server is a nice Linux project that gets you right into the back end of the Internet and ends your dependence on 3rd party servers. A VPS server that can handle it is pretty minimal and costs just a few dollars a year. For speed, I set up a a caching forwarding server on a Raspberry Pi on my LAN. Query latency is reduced from several hundred milliseconds to around 8 once it is cached in the Pi.
     
  13. ArchiveX

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    You are welcome! :thumb:
     
  14. subhrobhandari

    subhrobhandari Registered Member

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    Personally, I use these two

    https://dns.seby.io/

    https://dnscrypt.me:8443/

    In computer, DNS is set via SimpleDNSCrypt, in Android via Adguard DNSCrypt. These two scores pretty good in GRC DNS Spoofability test. External Ping and Query both are ignored, DNSSEC and very good entropy.
     
  15. Payne747

    Payne747 Registered Member

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    I used to use DNS.watch but the performance was awful so switched to Quad9.
     
  16. Beyonder

    Beyonder Registered Member

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  17. xxJackxx

    xxJackxx Registered Member

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    It's obviously not 2017 anymore but I just switched back to Quad9. I dropped them in the past after an extended outage but it seems to run pretty well now. It seems a little faster than the 1.1.1.1 we had been using.
     
  18. Spartan

    Spartan Registered Member

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    Thanks for letting me about Quad9, first time I heard of it and man it's super fast!
     
  19. SouthPark

    SouthPark Registered Member

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    I've been using Quad9 for about 2 mo. and find it reliable. (I actually felt Cloudflare DNS was faster, but I don't trust the company enough to use it.)
     
  20. xxJackxx

    xxJackxx Registered Member

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    Cloudflare was faster for us in the past but they are not as fast as they once were and Quad9 is faster than it used to be. Of course this could vary by location. I'd still prefer to use Quad9 for other reasons. The fact that they block malicious domains being the biggest reason.
     
  21. Infected

    Infected Registered Member

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    Switched from Cloudfare to Quad9. It's been faster.
     
  22. Krusty

    Krusty Registered Member

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    Security Filter here:

    https://cleanbrowsing.org/

    I have tried Quad9 but my ISP prevents me accessing the Australian servers for some reason, meaning I connect to the West Coast of USA.
     
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