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Most people still use the ISPs default DNS. My guess would be this is exactly what they used before Google DNS.
ISP dns, opendns.
Was using 192.168.0.1, dont know where that was redirecting to
ISP.
4.2.2.2
I am still using my ISP's DNS. No blocking, fast DNS updates, no issues.
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}
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.
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
208.67.222.222
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.
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
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.
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
ISP DNS, OpenDNS,
But nowadays I don't use Google DNS etc. I only use dnscrypt.
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.
1.2.4.8 lol
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.
Im staying away from Google services as far as I reasonably can, as much as I can.
Im using HE dns or dns.watch.
Open DNS was the first choice.
hosts in /etc
Today you use Google DNS. Tomorrow you'll kill a kitten.
Think about that.
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
I would use a notebook rather than norton to be honest
that's a big list
it would be extremely painful
at least for me
Yes, it has various resolvers. I didn't want to paste them all or the ones I'm using.