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What recursive DNS are you using?
I want to know which are the most popular DNS recursors.
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What recursive DNS are you using?
- 1.1.1.1144 votes
- Google34.03%
- OpenDNS  6.25%
- Hurricane Electric  0.69%
- Level 3  0.69%
- Neustar  0.00%
- Verisign  1.39%
- Yandex.DNS  0.00%
- Quad9  6.25%
- AdGuard DNS  3.47%
- NextDNS  0.00%
- DNS.WATCH  1.39%
- Pi-hole12.50%
- OpenNIC  0.69%
- My ISP  5.56%
- My own recursor19.44%
- Other  7.64%
Comments
OpenDNS since as long as I can remember.
Me too!
Pi-Hole with unbound, or sometimes Pi-Hole with AdGuard
rPI with AdGuard Home. Works like a charm.
Pi-Hole with CF/dns.sb & dbl.oisd.nl
I'm using and participating in OpenNIC.
I like the idea of decentralized, open and free systems.
OpenDNS because of CISCO involvment...
Adguard home
Thanks everyone, keep voting!
The 1.1.1.1 option is broken apparently, but I wanted to know what are the the most popular ones and already know Cloudflare is among them, so no big deal.
Same to me. Wireguard + Pihole + Unbound + Adguard treat me well.
As mentioned before in a similar thread, 1.1.1.1 lowercases all PTR responses, which makes
mtr
not as pretty to look at. I won't use them for that reason.All others:
CloudFlare:
Also you missed NTT which I use on some hosts, as I feel the Japanese telecommunications company is about the last entity to want to spy on my browsing etc.
Google is PREM
Interesting information about Cloudflare, thank you.
And thanks for reminding me of NTT, I used them for a while and they were very reliable and fast.
So can someone confirm, if I self host a mail server (my ISP doesn't do PTR) I can use one of the above to do it instead? I can see how Cloudflare might do it, but not sure about others.
@dfroe
Thanks for introducing opennic.
Never knew about that or not aware of it.
Pi-hole with 1.1.1.1.
8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4 is where it's at.
Maybe you are mixing up concepts.
Fun, yesterday i was checking more informations about 5 eyes, 9 eyes and 14 eyes. Japan was listed as a "more than probably" contributor of 5 eyes.
All our super-prem DNS look-ups are manually routed:
PTR records can only be set by your ISP. They have nothing to do with this topic. In this case you should consider getting a VPS or use SMTP relay to bypass your ISP’s restrictions.
NTT & HE mostly with a hint of Cloudflare.
I'm using 1.1.1.1 it's the fastest one for me.
1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8
I don't trust my ISP
My own recursor or a mix of 9.9.9.10 or 1.1.1.1
194.109.6.66, 194.109.9.99 and 194.109.104.104. Because I trust my ISP a lot more than faceless data hoarding tech corporations.
On servers I usually go for Quad9 or DNS.WATCH (when the server is in DE).
Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1. Working fast for me.
Google's 8.8.8.8 is also fast but I don't want to use them personally.
censurfridns.dk is quite sweet - I use that one in NL and Germany.
In Czech Republic I use the nic.cz DNS servers.
Otherwise I'd probably pick 1.1.1.1, I still have mixed feelings about CF, but in terms of performance they're still very impressive.
Seems like you have the kind of ISP one can trust, from the little I know about XS4ALL. Many people in the world aren't that lucky.
1.1.1.2 and 9.9.9.9 in front of pfBlocker