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New DNS Service 9.9.9.9
underzone:
A free service that helps stop consumers visiting websites known to be malicious has been set up by IBM and two other industry bodies.
The Quad 9 service requires people to change the settings on their home router so web addresses can be checked.
It uses 19 separate lists of web-based threats to spot those used by phishing gangs or other cyber-thieves.
One security expert said it could be a "challenge" getting people to adopt the filtering system.
New “Quad9” DNS service blocks malicious domains for everyone
Set DNS server to 9.9.9.9, and (known) malware and phishes won’t be able to phone home.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42025569
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/new-quad9-dns-service-blocks-malicious-domains-for-everyone/
"Anyone anywhere can use it," said Phil Rettinger, GCA's president and chief operating officer, in an interview with Ars. The service, he says, will be "privacy sensitive," with no logging of the addresses making DNS requests—"we will keep only [rough] geolocation data," he said, for the purposes of tracking the spread of requests associated with particular malicious domains. "We're anonymizing the data, sacrificing on the side of privacy." - bye bye Google DNS!
jelv:
I've just compared the tracert to that and Google's DNS - for me it has two less hops!
renluop:
Google has primary and secondary DNS; quad9 just the one i.e. 9999. Is that correct?
As a less knowledgeable member I'm thinking if that could be not a good thing, as shouldn't one always have an alternative and a non-quad9 would bear risks as before.
underzone:
--- Quote from: renluop on November 17, 2017, 07:02:57 PM --- quad9 just the one i.e. 9999. Is that correct?
As a less knowledgeable member I'm thinking if that could be not a good thing, as shouldn't one always have an alternative and a non-quad9 would bear risks as before.
--- End quote ---
Nope.
"As of launch, there were clusters of DNS servers configured in 70 different locations around the world; Baykal said that the organization expects to have 100 sites up and running by the end of the year. Each cluster has at least three servers, Baykal explained, "and in some critical areas, like Chicago, we have five, seven, or nine systems behind load balancer.""
Chrysalis:
yeah they defenitly have geo based routing, slightly better latency for me vs google dns.
--- Code: ---C:\Users\Chris\AppData\Local\FiveM\FiveM.app>ping 8.8.8.8
Pinging 8.8.8.8 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=60
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=60
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=60
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=60
Ping statistics for 8.8.8.8:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 9ms, Maximum = 9ms, Average = 9ms
C:\Users\Chris\AppData\Local\FiveM\FiveM.app>ping 9.9.9.9
Pinging 9.9.9.9 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 9.9.9.9: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=60
Reply from 9.9.9.9: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=60
Reply from 9.9.9.9: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=60
Reply from 9.9.9.9: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=60
Ping statistics for 9.9.9.9:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 6ms, Maximum = 7ms, Average = 6ms
C:\Users\Chris\AppData\Local\FiveM\FiveM.app>
--- End code ---
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