Battle Comodo Secure DNS vs Norton DNS vs OpenDNS

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Nikos

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Comodo Secure DNS vs Norton DNS vs OpenDNS?

Tried them ALL and benchmarked them too.

OpenDNS is the fastest but NortonDNS has better malware site and content blocking in Level B. You cant custom fil;ter though like you can with
OpenDNS.

Comodo Secure DNS didnt make up my mind yet.\

I think NortonDNS is the best so far.

Whats your opinion?
 
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In Norton DNS , im not sure you can. but with Comodo DNS you can submit website to be recognized as clean :

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Ink

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Just a guess, but if it's blocked from DNS level, I don't believe you can still visit from your Hosts, but doesn't Hosts files block sites anyway, not exclude?
 

Nikos

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You can block them if you add an entry like:

127.0.0.1 www.google.com

but you can also redirect a domain name to a whatever ip you want.

I need a way to bypass Norton's DNS since it doesnt support custom domain filtering like OpenDns does o to exclude whatever domains/sites i want.
 
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Nige_40

NSG001 said:
Also try out
Sendori DNS:

216.146.35.240
216.146.36.240

I have been using that for quite a few weeks now Sendori, and I like it. Comodo DNS is OK, but its slower than Sendori, I have tried Opendns and that is OK. But I'm happy to stay with Sendori.

But when Comodo DNS comes out of beta I will give it a good test.

Regards

Nigel
 
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Nige_40

NSG001 said:
Nige_40 said:
But when Comodo DNS comes out of beta I will give it a good test.

My beard will be on the floor by then Nige ;)
Been beta for a while now.

Yeah It's Nuts on why they are taking so long. O well.

Mind you how long is your beard at the moment :blush:

It may come out once CIS 6.0 is fully out ?

So I will look for it in my Xmas Stocking :)
 

HeffeD

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I prefer to use my ISP's DNS, and rely on my system security to protect me.

As quickly as malicious links come and go, maintaining a blacklist is too big of a job to be an effective security measure.
 
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Nige_40

HeffeD said:
I prefer to use my ISP's DNS, and rely on my system security to protect me.

As quickly as malicious links come and go, maintaining a blacklist is too big of a job to be an effective security measure.

That's great HeffeD I wish I could use my ISP's DNS, but it's so so slow. A page takes up to 8 to 12 secs to load a basic page.

So that is why I don;t use my own ISP's DNS.
 

Overkill

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Nikos said:
Yes thanks for the link, too bad ClearCloud is discontinued :(

Google DNS is fast but doesnt offer at all malware or pornography protection and i need that.


Wouldnt it be better insteaf of runnign extra blocking software for DNS to do the job for us?

Also if i continue to use Norton DNS in C level how can i allow only a specific web page to open and not get blocked?

Ad it to my win7 hosts file?

http://www.p2planet.net id like to exclude. What should i do?



Opendns is the best for parental control as far as dns servers, k9 would be #1 in regular parental control
 

minotaurdave

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I run every malware sample in Minotaur's sandboxes against several DNS services and correlate the results here: http://minotauranalysis.com/stats/dnscheck.aspx

Both the collectors and the sandboxes reach out to each service.

It's not a direct indicator of which service is better, merely which service appears to block more requests. For instance, some of these requests could be legit and the servers return a false positive or the service might be returning a corrected IP instead of a block, etc.

Before clearcloud went private, it was the leader by far, but now Norton is the highest block count, followed by Comodo.
 

minotaurdave

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NSG001 said:
@minotaurdave
Nice info, thanks :)

No mention of Sendori though.

Yeah, actually I just found out about them from this post. I can try to incorporate them, but I think it will be hard to judge them fairly since they autocorrect phishing post.

Also, forgot to mention, you can manually check a domain against all of the providers we use by going here: http://minotauranalysis.com/tools/dnscheck.aspx

It is not a very fast interface because it goes through a few systems here
 

Nikos

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I switched to my ISP's DNS at its the fastest of all and left the job to be done by Chromes plugin WebFilter Pro.
 
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Nige_40

Morro said:
I am currently using Sendori DNS.

What do you think of it Morro for your personal thought.

I like it for me and its better than going to sites they you have misspelled in the browser URL

Plus it protect you from those malware sites, I came up with one and it said we blocked your access to that site due to malware. But personally I forget what the site was now.

So over all its good.

Regards

Nigel
 

Ink

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I don't like filtering my web surfing using DNS services. I prefer to leave it to the capabilities of my web browser; Chrome and it's built-in protection/anti-phishing lists.

Why use a separate eraser, when there's one on the end of the pencil. (I'm bad at these) LOL.
 

Littlebits

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I have tried almost all of these secure DNS services.
All are much slower than my default ISP DNS and have many false positives blocking sites that I know are safe.

I rather use my security setup and my own knowledge, so far it works has great to last 8 years not one single infection, so why change?

Thanks.:D
 
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