The top DNS servers are listed in order of importance, with primary and secondary entries defining their roles.
The top DNS servers are listed in order of importance, with primary and secondary entries defining their roles.
Primary and secondary DNS servers are key for setup. The fastest public DNS providers include Opendns, Cloudflare, and Google DNS. To pick the best, compare their speed and reliability. If you need help choosing, feel free to ask! Thanks everyone, including those in China.
Whatever the ISP sets (automatically) or what you set (manually). The secondary comes into play only when the primary isn<|pad|>, which hinges on your proximity to the servers. Consider running DNS Bench.
I prioritize privacy over speed, so I use Cloudflare Anti-Malware (1.1.1.2) as my main option and Google (8.8.8.8) as a backup if Cloudflare isn't available. I also run a pihole, which means most searches happen locally on my network with the associated add-blocking features. My pihole's DNS settings match what I mentioned earlier.
They aren't always the case, but on a router they're often set to ask both servers and choose the quicker one. For top performance, it's usually better for the router to handle DNS lookups itself, as it stores results locally for the whole network instead of each device making a full search to the internet. Even with today's fast broadband, the difference is probably minimal. I used to tell apart speeds clearly, but now pfSense does full DNS resolution and I don’t see a noticeable change compared to services like Cloudflare.