Wanted to hear this communities thoughts on DNS servers and privacy implications. Currently I am using OpenDNS, but am revisiting other DNS services due to any privacy issues that misuse of a DNS could cause.
What DNS providers do you all use? Or do you roll your own?
They list the policies for each server. And you pick the servers.. Better than OpenDNS which is neither open nor in it for you. there in it for money, so like Google, your the product.
Not entirely true, you have to pick a DNS that has no logging. To do that, you'll have to choose one manually from the list instead of just using the ones they give you automatically under, "Give me the numbers, I know what Iām doing!" on the homepage. Many of the ones based in US and Canada have gone dark in the past five years.
Right, if you dont look at the list sure, the home page give you a random pick. But the list is there and it tells you what the server does or doesnt do.
Actually, they're not so random. I believe the site can detect your IP...if you're not spoofing it or using a VPN. There needs to be a way to flag servers that are down, but the new anycast servers largely solve this problem.
Looks like it picks some servers with some reference to your location, but its always giving me at least one extra out of country option. Prefers EU servers slightly more 2/4 in the UK. Prefers US servers slightly more 3/4 in the US.
I believe theres some automatic testing for monitoring servers?
There is but it's slow. I know this is probably to give the owner the benefit of the doubt, but there really should be some kind of warning flag, or indication right on the list page, instead of having to click for further details. Otherwise you'll have to resort to trial-and-error to find a working one.
You could run your own DNS server with something like a raspberry pi or openwrt on your router currently I'm running Google DNS but im hoping to get my own DNS server setup once I build a decent PC for caching and various other tasks.