[ale] Best public DNS servers?

[Brian Schenken]

I've been happy with OpenDNS, I use the reporting features once in a 
while for tracking down spyware, etc. and the filtering and option to 
block domains comes in handy.  It's performance is snappy for us as well.


On 01/28/2015 01:04 PM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> On 01/28/2015 11:58 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>> Any recommendations?  This is for lookups of existing sites (e.g. google.com,
>> yahoo.com, billybob.com etc…) not a place to add our own records.
>>
> There are DNS performance test tools available which will find the fastest dns
> for you.
> That doesn't address the "trustworthy" or the tracking aspects.  DNS queries
> provide a wealth of metadata about a subnet.  I wouldn't trust google with that
> data unless it was absolutely necessary.
>
> OTOH, I wouldn't trust any government to provide a clean, unmodified, DNS either.
>
> Just a reminder - DNS is the core for most web security. If you own the DNS, you
> own all servers on the internet too. This is not anything to be selected on a whim.
>
> IMHO.
>
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