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New “Quad9” DNS service blocks malicious domains for everyone
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malch
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Well, DNS is only gonna help if the malware embeds a hostname rather than an IP address.
If I was writing the code, I'd embed multiple IP's and I know that at least some malware does that.
Quad9 might be useful as a DNS service depending on how fast and reliable it turns out to be. Personally I use my service providers DNS (Comcast) as a primary and Google (8.8.8.8) as a secondary.
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"The Global Cyber Alliance (GCA)—an organization founded by law enforcement and research organizations to help reduce cyber-crime"
What better way to spy on people in the US than log their DNS lookups on a server you supply, which is supposedly there for your protection? Log someone looking at a "bad" site, take that log to a judge, and get a warrant for surveillance. You know who gets to decide what a "bad" site is, you agreed by using the service to be logged so it's not entrapment, everything legally done.
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malch
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Hey, it works for Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter et al
9 out of 10 terrorists prefer DNISIS.Hey, it works for Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter et al
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As far as I know, Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, don't own the guns.Hey, it works for Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter et al
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Well, 3 of these 4 are partly or wholly owned by the Russkies, who have guns. And nuclear weapons. Or should I say pwned?As far as I know, Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, don't own the guns.Hey, it works for Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter et al
Quad9 doesn't seem to exist yet. Try it here by entering 9.9.9.9 (works for 8.8.8.8 and 4).
https://www.ultratools.com/tools/dnsHostingSpeedResult
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incoherent1
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How is this different from opendsn?
Billiam29
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I’m taking a swinging you-know-what guess here, but I’m willing to bet that’s not how this tool is intended to be used. I’m betting the intent of the tool is that you enter a web site or other standard “destination” and then it walks DNS starting with the DNS servers you have configured in your OS. Entering the name or IP address of a DNS server into this tool may not give you any meaningful information about the DNS performance of that server.
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malch
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Opendns? It's a direct competitor. Not yet proven of course but maybe it will turn out better (or maybe not).
Either way, folks should think about who they wish to share their online habits with as Russell has cautioned.
Thanks Patco, my firewall or nannyware must be blocking it.
Anyhow, performance is marginally better than Google 8.8.8.8 and .4, although this could be owing to lighter load.
I tried OpenDNS but many parts of the Internet are unavailable, specifically a news site I liked to read, until the editor died. Also sites with dirty jokes. Quad9 remains to be seen.
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malch
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It looks more like any other DNS service to me.
DNS filters for known malware sites can be useful but I worry that some folks will be misled into thinking Quad9 gives them comprehensive protection from malware and all the rest. It won't; not even close. For most people, a commercial AV program is probably a much better bet (although the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive).
Billiam29
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Ooops, sorry. When I said "I’m willing to bet that’s not how this tool is intended to be used" I was actually referring to the link that CAcreeks and Patco mentioned for "dnsHostingSpeedResult" at ultratools.com.
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malch
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incoherent1
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Thanks for the gracefull response to my typo!
I thought it looked to offer the same functionality, but being somewhat ignorant about such subtleties, wanted to clarify.
I thought it looked to offer the same functionality, but being somewhat ignorant about such subtleties, wanted to clarify.
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