Cloudflare dns reddit Pero tracert ko naman sa HK servers ng Youtube is less hop compared pag sa Manila servers ako. I'm firmly set that my DNS resolver should not do any filtering. Which dns do you prefer? I guess it comes down to speed vs security. However, the difference is probably generally in single milliseconds. 1 as primary and google's 8. It is not a proxy so it will not hide your IP. I ended up with Cloudflare because my domain name provider slowly increased the price for DNS until something that was to me not reasonable for personal use, I would understand those prices for commercial use, but not for a website with just a few hits per day. Which would you use? I know Quad9 blocks some know malware. Usually not a problem unless you're poking hackers in TL;DR: Cloudflare is too powerful whilst being opaque - they offer e. set cloudflare's 1. At NYC, I think you'd get sub-10 ping to pretty google, quad9 and CloudFlare. Like "Your DNS can see every domain you visit" Yes, that's how DNS works. Most of this post is conspiracy theory level. Have been using cloudflare since 2013 for DNS Management (I was 13 years old in 2013). "The fastest" probably depends on where you are in the network topology, since both Google and CloudFlare use any cast routing the the server your queries will hit will be the one that is closest (network topologically). g. It was and still is pretty easy. A special thing about Cloudflare WARP+ DNS is that it will help to encrypt all your information and all your activities through Cloudflare's servers around the world by going through their encrypted tunnel. When I ping, I get 11 ms with cloudflare and 22 msec with quad9, but I think I would rather have better protection so I’m using quad9. Their malware protection is basically a blacklist of websites that will just return a "name not found" during your egress DNS requests. But that doesn't mean ISPs can't see you. If I do a ping test, my isp is about 6msec, Cloudflare is 11msec, and Quad9 is 22msec. They also offer a DNS server, which is nice for countries where some DNS entries are blocked (you can do that I have read - periodically - about Cloudflare and this is all that I have learnt. On your phone it's very easy by downloading the 1. Use DNS over https, tls, or warp instead. . Not only did I have to rely on another service provider (an extra point of potential breakdown), but the performance was slower in general for DNS resolution. In my experience (at least with the big 2 ISPs in my area) the ISP servers are significantly faster (not noticeable to me in normal use, just on benchmarks), but don't support any features, and sometimes would do things like redirecting negative results to For years I had been using CloudFlare DNS + a third party solution for DDNS. When they came out with 1. Encrypted dns is also safer because the network nodes that the dns request passes are then unable to read or change the dns request/response. Cloudflare's DNS servers are faster than google's at my location. 1. That is by design. What are the downsides of setting the primary and secondary DNS of your OS or router to different providers? E. 1) is generally faster but Quad9 (9. And I am very happy, I was already using them for DNS (and DDNS), and when I switched I saved about $60 a year over Godaddy , once cloudflare supports the rest of my domain tld’s I’ll fully switch over. Cloudflare is kind of overtaking the entire internet. Make sure that the DNS records are already copied or same on your current registrar and Cloudflare DNS to avoid any downtime. 9) blocks malware. Google DNS and Cloudflare's 1. They have been protecting people with controversial opinions and people harassed for testifying in court - with impressive success. 8 as secondary. nslookup with both DNS ng Smart and Google is showing servers (I tested Youtube and YouTube Music) here in the PH, Cloudflare DNS is giving me HK server, tas currently down yung MNL server ng Cloudflare and currently on HK server of Cloudflare DNS also. Let's Encrypt is free and allows wildcards. Switched from Godaddy to CloudFlare for most of my domains (read, the ones Cloudflare currently supports tld wise). This cuts out like 95% of malicious traffic because they can analyze and block it on a wide scale. 1, they said the reason they made it was because it would provide faster DNS resolution and the resolve speed for their customers would be slightly faster than the general resolve speed. CloudFlare on the other hand seems to connect to HK servers that has a 20-30ms ping time. 9. But last month they were down for 2-3 times, 10 - 30 min each, while google's still work. 1 app, on your pc you can use the dns over https function in Firefox. 8. DDOS protection seems to be a part of that. Personally I use a self-hosted dns server. I only use Cloudflare to run my own website and to ssh into my server. Both Google and CloudFlare are very fast and reliable. Quad9 is a DNS service with DNS over TLS, DNS over HTTPs and DNSCrypt. . They empower so many websites and they do great in performance optimization and DDoS protection. If they love Cloudflare's free tier enough, they are likely to get their company to use the paid services. Cloudflare (1. Absolut We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. DDoS protection so they need to decrypt network traffic. You can also export your DNS records from your previous registrar just for the backup. your DNS is fine, to do a redirect you just need to have some proxied DNS record (which you do) so that Cloudflare is able to process the redirect Reply reply More replies More replies Top 5% Rank by size What dns would you recommend a public one or my isp dns? According to Gibson dns benchmark by isp is the fastest, Cloudflare is second, but Quad9 and Google dns is down the list a bit. Run a DNS benchmark, as the fastest service for me won't necessarily be the same for you. +: cloudflare is applying their traffic security rules to your service. They run a DNS server which is quick, and people trust it. "We had an idea to make websites safer from hackers" Yes, this was cloudflare. 1 don't do any filtering whatsoever. Similar to a very smart spam filter. And I had CNAME to point to that 3-rd party DDNS host name. +: cloudflare obfuscates your IP address, good if you are a target of DDOS attacks. uvutplhqpvjvgrkvyvophdkhimfhdjvjhqcrpuqmeyatp