Which DNS service is friendly to China?

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• deployvm Member, Host Rep

  December 2015 edited December 2015

  There are many free DNS services in China!

  https://www.dnspod.cn/ - > Very common --> English: https://www.dnspod.com

  https://www.dns.la/

  NameStuff said: know this is influenced by GFW maybe

  I think the usual problem is congestion at China Telecom or Unicom's backbone. Therefore, you need to find an ISP with direct peering to CN. (e.g. PCCW)
• TheOnlyDK Member

  December 2015

  @NameStuff said:
  I have tried the free nameservers by Rackspace, Vultr, Cloudflare, they all got bad results in China. I know this is influenced by GFW maybe. Do you know which DNS service is friendly to China location? Thanks.

  How about dns servers inside China? Like alidns. Unless if you are targeting worldwide users that is.
• William Member

  December 2015

  deployvm said: I think the usual problem is congestion at China Telecom or Unicom's backbone. Therefore, you need to find an ISP with direct peering to CN. (e.g. PCCW)

  The problem is that the GFW is very advanced by now - You can buy filtering HW from Huawei that does 100G DPI in ASICs by now for way less than a 10G Cisco FW, as a de-facto government "influenced" enterprise (come on, the owner/CEO was Major in the PLAs IT dpt, his ex-wife the daughter of a province governor, he was in national "congress" and Beijing tells this company is independent? Yea... ) the gov probably has access to more sophisticated designs based on this.

  Likely the DNS servers are not even blocked, the GFW just replaces the result on-the-fly with a Chinese IP, NXDOMAIN or 0.0.0.0.