Comment by surgical_fire
6 months ago
Quad9.
Many years ago I used Cloudflare, and more than once I had issues with them blocking websites I wanted to access.
I absolutely despise that. I want my DNS to resolve domain names, nothing else.
For blocking things I have Pi-Hole, which is under my control for that reason. I can blacklist or whitelist addresses to my needs, not to the whims of a corporation that wants to play gatekeeper to what I can browse.
So… why not use 1.1.1.1, cloudflare’s resolver that does not block resolution?
1.1.1.2 and .3 are explicitly offered with filtered responses.
I used to use 1.1.1.1. I still had issues.
Quad9 behaves exactly as I expect a DNS to work, in the sense that I only remember I use it when the topic of DNS pops up.
Your claim was that 1.1.1.1 was blocking sites.
Are you saying now you just had issues with the quality of service? Or do you want to provide more details to substantiate the claim that they were blocking sites?
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Because that would be subject to the whim of the provider, who subject to court orders would have to oblige to continue operating as US entity.
How does that differ from Quad9? You’re subject to Swiss laws, so there’s still a government involved? And you’re now hosted in an area where the US government has far fewer limitations on what they can attempt.
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Why give all your queries to a single company with an interest in tracking you and selling your data?
But don’t most ISPs do this? And if you use google’s DNS, for example, are they not doing this? Does cloudflare sell the data?
IMO all the more reason to run your own resolver and not just forward every query to a single entity.