[ale] Best public DNS servers?

[Lightner, Jeff]

Thanks all.

Both OpenDNS and Google as suggested by multiple people will do what I want.

OpenDNS' IPs:  208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 

Google's IPs:   8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

As a note to those who expressed concern about not having our own.  We DO - this particular need was for a guest network that won't be seeing any of our internal IPs (i.e. a Public WiFi we're providing though for a limited set of users).   Our DNS servers don't allow recursive lookups on the public interface and while I could have opened up the ACL to allow this particular range of IPs to do that I thought it better to simply point those IPs to a public DNS server since they don't need to do any internal lookups anyway.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Brian Schenken
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 1:20 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Best public DNS servers?

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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