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Before 8.8.8.8..

So everybody uses 8.8.8.8, right?

What did people use pre-2009?

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  • niknik Member, Host Rep

    Most people still use the ISPs default DNS. My guess would be this is exactly what they used before Google DNS.

  • mikhomikho Member, Host Rep

    ISP dns, opendns.

  • Was using 192.168.0.1, dont know where that was redirecting to

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  • @teamacc said:
    Was using 192.168.0.1, dont know where that was redirecting to

    ISP.

  • vfusevfuse Member, Host Rep

    4.2.2.2

  • RadiRadi Host Rep, Veteran

    I am still using my ISP's DNS. No blocking, fast DNS updates, no issues.

  • @PirateHitman said:

    @teamacc said:
    Was using 192.168.0.1, dont know where that was redirecting to

    ISP.

    Yes, probably. I added the "I dont know where that was redirecting to" part to illustrate my un-caringness about it.

  • Of course we use the one provided by ISP. I still remember in the dial up age we have to remember those magic IPs like 202.96.209.133 before everything works.

  • I use my own DNS server, with rules to block any traffic from known ad-servers hostnames, like doubleclick, etc.

    Then I set it on my phone and I have a free adblocker for my phone!

    But for my computer I use 8.8.{8.8,4.4}

  • Ole_JuulOle_Juul Member
    edited February 2017

    Have used ISP for many years. In recent times I decided that government access to logs of everybody's searches wasn't cool, so now I always use non logging DNS servers.

  • I still have the nameservers memorized from a host that hasn't existed in nearly 20 years. Every so often I'll decide to setup my own private nameserver, but most of the time I just use what I get vended over DHCP and dnsmasq that from the router.

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  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    vfuse said: 4.2.2.2

    4.2.2.1 - 4.2.2.6 have been around for ages, though they're not technical public DNS. They're level3 now.

    https://www.tummy.com/articles/famous-dns-server/

  • @raindog308 said:

    vfuse said: 4.2.2.2

    4.2.2.1 - 4.2.2.6 have been around for ages, though they're not technical public DNS. They're level3 now.

    https://www.tummy.com/articles/famous-dns-server/

    I assume theoretically if I'm on a connection like Comcast, etc that uses Level3 as an upstream provider I could use 4.2.2.2 as my DNS

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    208.67.222.222

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  • I would rather go for norton dns ( https://dns.norton.com/) or comodo dns(https://www.comodo.com/secure-dns/) to filter malware domain without any overhead. I have been using norton dns for years and it is really awesome.

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  • Being that Norton products have caused far more issues in non-corporate environments than they've ever fixed, I sure don't trust them to do proper DNS filtering.

  • Norton DNS can be interesting, but I bet that is much more slower than Google DNS...
    In this year's the speed is much more important than security :)

    @saf31 said:
    I would rather go for norton dns ( https://dns.norton.com/) or comodo dns(https://www.comodo.com/secure-dns/) to filter malware domain without any overhead. I have been using norton dns for years and it is really awesome.

  • @WSS said:
    Being that Norton products have caused far more issues in non-corporate environments than they've ever fixed, I sure don't trust them to do proper DNS filtering.

    Previous Norton products were a mess, their home products are much better after they did everything from scratch in 2009/9010. I have been using their dns for years and never had any problem. Whenever I install windows for friend/family I always change the dns to Norton dns and it works quite well. I have never used comodo, but their dns also does malware domain filtering.

    @Dormeo said:
    Norton DNS can be interesting, but I bet that is much more slower than Google DNS...
    In this year's the speed is much more important than security :)

    I don't think it is slow, you can always try and find out yourself :) it takes only 1 minute to change your dns servers. https://gist.github.com/0x9900/4454974

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  • ISP DNS, OpenDNS,

    But nowadays I don't use Google DNS etc. I only use dnscrypt.

  • kcaj said: So everybody uses 8.8.8.8, right?

    What did people use pre-2009?

    In a way, pre-2009 was like the Dark Ages as far as choice in DNS was concerned. I had an ISP whose DNS was not very reliable (name resolution would intermittently time out), and so Google Public DNS was a godsend. Strictly speaking, I had begun to use OpenDNS before Google Public DNS came along, but back then OpenDNS (at least the free version) used to redirect your query if you looked for a page that didn't exist, which wasn't so great. (OpenDNS admitted that they did this. As far as I know, they've removed this "feature" since then, probably due to the competition posed by Google Public DNS.)

    Nowadays, I prefer DNS.Watch ( https://dns.watch/ ), a free non-logging DNS service, but Google Public DNS is my second choice.

    (It's good to learn about Norton DNS and Comodo DNS, which I didn't know about. A filtering DNS can certainly be useful in certain environments, e.g., on a family computer.)

  • Seems to be quite a few more people using OpenNIC recently.

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  • 1.2.4.8 lol

  • arda said: ISP DNS, OpenDNS,

    But nowadays I don't use Google DNS etc. I only use dnscrypt.

    But DNSCrypt isn't a DNS service/provider, is it? You still need a DNS service/provider.

  • @angstrom said:

    arda said: ISP DNS, OpenDNS,

    But nowadays I don't use Google DNS etc. I only use dnscrypt.

    But DNSCrypt isn't a DNS service/provider, is it? You still need a DNS service/provider.

    Yeah, I usually do DNSCrypt through OpenDNS. Even before Google DNS I was using OpenDNS, as SBC's DNS servers were absolute crap.

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  • Im staying away from Google services as far as I reasonably can, as much as I can.

    Im using HE dns or dns.watch.

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  • Open DNS was the first choice.

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  • hosts in /etc

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  • YuraYura Member
    edited February 2017

    Today you use Google DNS. Tomorrow you'll kill a kitten.

    Think about that.

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  • mfsmfs Banned, Member

    pre-2009.. ISP's DNS, then OpenDNS for a while

    Currently I'm using my own set of BIND instances with ORSN root hints, rigorously dnssec-disabled, balanced behind dnsdist. I'm serving dnscrypt too for some relatives and friends of mine who are behind an ISP which is actively and massively filtering dns requests no matter what and no matter how much you insist in switching to different public dns (no, I'm not in Iran, it's more and more common in western countries too), and I'm doing some ad/malware filtering on top of it (but only for the most obnoxious domains/malware spreaders). Sometimes I think to go public with them

    norton

    I would use a notebook rather than norton to be honest

    @jiggawattz said:
    hosts in /etc

    that's a big list

    it would be extremely painful

    at least for me

  • @angstrom said:

    arda said: ISP DNS, OpenDNS,

    But nowadays I don't use Google DNS etc. I only use dnscrypt.

    But DNSCrypt isn't a DNS service/provider, is it? You still need a DNS service/provider.

    Yes, it has various resolvers. I didn't want to paste them all or the ones I'm using.

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