Public DNS Servers

[Michael Butash]

I'll just say "OpenDNS" is now owned by Cisco, thus will never be
open-anything again, so don't let the name fool you.  It's now part of
their "umbrella" feature they sell in security appliances for dns
inspection.  I wouldn't be surprised if there's an upsell from free to be
had somewhere these days, with Cisco there always is.

I'd recommend CloudFlare dns, which also does https-based dns for
encryption, and you can't really forget their 1.1.1.1 dns server address.
These are highly anycast routed around the world, and tends to result in
good use for me when I need to use one on the road or test externally quick
without looking up an external dns.

Your ISP should tend to have fast DNS putting local servers in your area.
I use my CL DNS on my firewall, and my firewall acts as a local
cache/authoritative dns for a few local internal domains I use, which is
usually enough to ensure DNS isn't an issue for me.

-mb


On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 1:03 AM Andrew McRobb via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> I can't speak much about privacy, but I've used OpenDNS in the past with
> no problems. I'm sure someone will say something about it.
>
> https://www.opendns.com/home-internet-security/
>
> If you want real privacy I would just use VPN service, don't think a DNS
> service is necessarily going to get a lot of information from you just
> based on what sites you visit every so often. Your computer has a few
> layers of DNS caching as is, but that's just my two cents.
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 2:12 AM AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I was curious if anyone has any recommendations for free public DNS
>> servers that they've used. I've been using OpenNic for a while, but in the
>> last two days I'm experiencing a lot of trouble with domains not resolving.
>> I'm using Google's (8.8.8.8) right now and things are much better. But, I
>> thought I'd ping the Plug list for other recommendations. Reliability and
>> privacy are the priority in that order (with privacy a close second). I
>> don't need all the add on features of parental controls, malicious site
>> blocking, etc.
>>
>> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>> Thanks,
>> Peter
>>
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