Show HN: Which DNS servers are you pointing to? • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Which DNS servers are you pointing to?

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Post by WarOnPrivacy » Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 3:47 PM UTC

teknologist wrote: post #7

I often use dnsleaktest.com for this; it runs multiple rounds so you see all the ones you might be using.

Very nice. I don't think I've used them before.

Re: Show HN: Which DNS servers are you pointing to?

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Post by jelv » Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 3:55 PM UTC

You can check your best available dns server via this easy tool https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm (win and wine)

Re: Show HN: Which DNS servers are you pointing to?

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Post by CircoDesktop » Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 4:01 PM UTC

Great tool !

Re: Show HN: Which DNS servers are you pointing to?

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Post by compsciphd » Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 4:08 PM UTC

I'm using 8.8.8.8 and its coming up as cloudflarenet not whatever google should presumably be?

Re: Show HN: Which DNS servers are you pointing to?

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Post by lucb1e » Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 4:11 PM UTC

If Mozilla silently enabled DOH-via-CloudFlare for you, it would show up here right? Because if yes, this would make it quite easy to find whether you have the right settings without having to find it somewhere in a configuration screen or trying to find out which users' throats Mozilla ended up deciding to force this down.

Re: Show HN: Which DNS servers are you pointing to?

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Post by Fileformat » Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 4:13 PM UTC

jelv wrote: post #12

You can check your best available dns server via this easy tool https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm (win and wine)

Thanks, that's a really interesting tool.

Re: Show HN: Which DNS servers are you pointing to?

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Post by treis » Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 4:15 PM UTC

compsciphd wrote: post #14

I'm using 8.8.8.8 and its coming up as cloudflarenet not whatever google should presumably be?

Me too. Can someone explain why Cloudflare shows up when (as far as I know) I don't use Cloudflare.

Re: Show HN: Which DNS servers are you pointing to?

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Post by Cantbekhan » Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 4:17 PM UTC

Nextdns.io and cloudflare externally. Pi-hole pointing to those internally. Preferably encrypted. Preferably with Firefox due to esni support.

Re: Show HN: Which DNS servers are you pointing to?

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Post by dheera » Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 4:19 PM UTC

compsciphd wrote: post #14

I'm using 8.8.8.8 and its coming up as cloudflarenet not whatever google should presumably be?

Gosh, I feel old, how do I set DNS servers in Linux these days?

I used to just edit /etc/resolv.conf and add 8.8.8.8 to it but now recent distros have "Do not edit." in resolv.conf and don't tell you what to actually edit. Why do they have to do this to us ... things used to be simple.

Re: Show HN: Which DNS servers are you pointing to?

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Post by gilrain » Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 4:21 PM UTC

compsciphd wrote: post #14

I'm using 8.8.8.8 and its coming up as cloudflarenet not whatever google should presumably be?

Are you using Firefox?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dns-over-https-doh-faqs...