LebGeeks

leblinux

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Cloudflare new DNS

Officially lunched: 1.1.1.1

More info:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/

https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/

Performance:
https://www.dnsperf.com/#!dns-resolvers

Happy Surfing...

Last edited by leblinux (April 2 2018)

RandomMemory

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Re: Cloudflare new DNS

Does it block ads like yandex DNS.
Edit: Doesn't look like it.

Last edited by RandomMemory (April 2 2018)

rolf

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Re: Cloudflare new DNS

Their "explanation" is so confusing!
"It is a DNS resolver - kind of like Google Maps for your computer".
Google map for my computer?
Thanfully I know what DNS is otherwise I would be terribly confused.

Anyway this joins 8.8.8.8 as "DNS options when DHCP does not work or when name resolution acts funny".
It does help with privacy (DNS over TLS), but it's just a half-measure. If you're concerned about privacy use a encrypted tunnel to a trusted endpoint.

alifawaz99

Member

Re: Cloudflare new DNS

Is it better than ogero?
Or we should keep using OGERO DNS.

beezer

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Re: Cloudflare new DNS

Ogero would probably get you better speed, but this is a better option than Google's.

alifawaz99

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Re: Cloudflare new DNS

I'll stay with OGERO DNS then ;)

Xsever

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Re: Cloudflare new DNS

I ran namebench today and Ogero's DNS remained the fastest compared to Google and Cloudflare so I am sticking with it. I read though that people in other countries are finding Cloudflare to be faster than Google.

duke-of-bytes

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Re: Cloudflare new DNS

it is faster for now but with more queries it will slow down
sticking with a closer server like Ogero's is faster considering the closest cloudflare dns is probably more than 60 ms away

rolf

Member

Re: Cloudflare new DNS

Ogero DNS server is in Lebanon, so it is going to be your fastest option. I'm assuming that it's a half-decent server.
Cloudflare would be interesting for other aspects.

Tracing route to 1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com [1.1.1.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

     ** 6 hops inside Lebanon, yay! **
   
  7    76 ms   120 ms    71 ms  ix-ae-24-0.tcore1.WYN-Marseille.as6453.net [80.231.217.25]
  8   120 ms   129 ms    93 ms  if-ae-8-1600.tcore1.PYE-Paris.as6453.net [80.231.217.6]
  9    85 ms    86 ms   112 ms  80.231.154.14
 10    86 ms    80 ms    80 ms  1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com [1.1.1.1]

It goes at least all the way to France (on Ogero DSL), as you can see above.

Super Official

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Re: Cloudflare new DNS

I'm pinging 1.1.1.1 on my idm connection and am getting 30ms, same as IDM's own dns servers. This means that there is a server located here in Lebanon. Went digging a bit more and found that cloudflare has a server in beirut operating as part of their anycast network.