Battle Which DNS would you choose for Security and Content blocking?

[Tempnexus]

I would like to add a second opinion Content and Malware blocking on top of my Sophos UTM.
Giving that speculation which DNS would you choose?
Norton DNS
Comodo DNS
Open DNS
Fools DNs

 

[yashiscool]

OK , slightly OT here I admit, but I found this great free tool for quickly changing DNS settings ,
so I thought I would share.
I wasted so much time before I discovered it !

Dns Jumper

Yes, I have been using this like since 2010. It is one of my personal favorite. I also use DNSBench.

 

[Myriad]

It's a great tool that's for sure , I had no idea that it has been around that long !

If you have any other recommended tools , please share them in this "Toolbox" thread .
Thanks

 

[_CyberGhosT_]

@Tempnexus
Need to update the thread to include AdGuard DNS servers
Its what I now employ full time.

 

[neon]

@Tempnexus
Need to update the thread to include AdGuard DNS servers
Its what I now employ full time.

Are You happy from Adguard DNS servers?

 

[_CyberGhosT_]

Are You happy from Adguard DNS servers?

Very much so, they are stable now,
and faster "for me" than Nortons servers ever were

 

[Evjl's Rain]

Are You happy from Adguard DNS servers?

I confirm. AdguardDNS works extremely well. Much better than nortonDNS which noticeably increases gaming latency for me
adguard hasnt noticed for a while

 

[Myriad]

I'd never heard of Adguard until I read the recent posts here , so I added it to my custom list in DNS Jumper.

I am seeing resolve times of 67 to 77 mS with Adguard , and for comparison , 16 to 24 mS with Open DNS.
In fairness I should check Google on 8.8.8.8 [ even though I try to keep them out of my life ]
.... it is steady at 27 mS

So Adguard is not too swift ( not at this location , anyway ) , but then it is doing some active blocking /filtering ,
so maybe that is the trade-off.

 

[ExoGen CyberSecurity]

I used Comodo's DNS, now I'm using DNSCrypt.

 

[Evjl's Rain]

I'd never heard of Adguard until I read the recent posts here , so I added it to my custom list in DNS Jumper.

I am seeing resolve times of 67 to 77 mS with Adguard , and for comparison , 16 to 24 mS with Open DNS.
In fairness I should check Google on 8.8.8.8 [ even though I try to keep them out of my life ]
.... it is steady at 27 mS

So Adguard is not too swift ( not at this location , anyway ) , but then it is doing some active blocking /filtering ,
so maybe that is the trade-off.

adguard DNS is still in beta and it doesnt have a lot of servers like other DNS providers so it must be slower. However, it's ad fitering works very well. Still faster than AlternateDNS. Highly recommended

 

[Tempnexus]

how do I add the choices? I can't seem to change it.

Also, not to be racist or anything but with the new Russian ruling regarding retaining all traffic files for at least 1 year is it wise to use AdGuard DNS or even AdGuard?

 

[giulia]

hi
i voted opend dns , what do you think that dns can really block malware?
i mean norton or comodo dns are enough to block any threats
once i wanted to give to them a try , they haven't block anything

adguard dns are beta but seem very good , at least better then the dns poll
just my poor opinion about dns
thanks

 

[ForgottenSeer 55474]

I voted,open DNS,but i use stofa dns most at the time,it is a DNS my ISP provides,and it is very good regarding speed.

 

[yashiscool]

Has anybody used the following DNS: 80:80:80:80 and 80:80:81:81? It seems trust worthy but need your opinion.

 

[Sr. Normal 2.0]

Norton DNS here, but i really like Yandex. I have serious doubts about staying with Norton or changing. I do not know why Yandex products are not widely used. I love its browser and the tests that I'm doing to its DNS are also widely satisfactory

 

[ptup]

I use Norton DNS and like it

 

[Zar_]

Another one using Norton DNS. At the moment without problems and without slowing down

 

[ForgottenSeer 55778]

I also use Norton DNS. It's fast, secure, and does my family's inappropriate content filtering.

 

[Dirk41]

I use norton in my desktop for security but I don't like one thing : if it block something , you can visit it , even if you click on " I want to see it anyway " . I reported this to norton and they only said " if you think it is a false positive , you can report it ".

This happened with a giveaway websites and panopreter.com if I remember well

 

[antreas]

I use my vpn DNS servers.

 

[Rolo]

I regularly had problems with Google's DNS, so not going back there.

I used Norton years ago but had some issues with it; that was a long time ago, however. I almost went back to it except...

I've been using Open DNS for a couple of months and it's been great. It's blocked a few adware domains. It's dashboard and stats are hard to beat.

That DNS Jumper program is a neat must-have. Great for troubleshooting and for my laptop.