Im looking for a dns that doesnt spy on me as much as google’s dns server.
Mullvad recently announced a free encrypted DNS. It can block ads and malware too.
Awesome, I didn’t know about this. I love Mullvad.
I don’t think you need that if you already use their VPN, as that already connects to their DNS servers.
I’ve been using Quad9 and I’m happy with it. Here’s the site if you’re interested in looking into it further.
NextDNS.
You can control if you want logs or not, where to store them, for how long, which domains to block, which encryption protocol will be used, and many more features.
Quad9 or mullvads dns
Mullvad is a better option
Why?
Honest question, what’s wrong with cloudflare?
Here are two resources for privacy-oriented DNS:
- The provider list for the https-dns-proxy module of OpenWRT: https://github.com/stangri/source.openwrt.melmac.net/tree/master/luci-app-https-dns-proxy/root/usr/share/https-dns-proxy/providers
- Privacy-oriented European public DNS services: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/public-dns
OpenNIC https://www.opennic.org/
If you have the skill to implement Pi Hole is the best option. If not MullvadDNS is a solid option but if you want a granular control over your DNS queries no doubt NextDNS.
In case you are unaware, make sure to override DNS on any web browsers or other programs that might be skipping OS configured DNS servers to use hard-coded DNS over HTTPS servers.
If you’re running your own DNS resolver you can hint this to some applications in your network via a canary domain
If you are in Europe, try dns0: https://www.dns0.eu/
Adguard has an encrypted dns
Adguard has a quite comprehensive list of known DNS providers in their documentation. It’s very useful because my ISP transparently redirect all dns queries on port 53, so I’ll have to find DNS providers that listen on alternate ports for my upstream DNS in my Adguard instance.
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