 In the game that is the cat and mouse of bad websites versus your computer Quad 9 has kind of stepped in to help create a better internet experience by Filtering DNS now Quad 9 is interesting now DNS if you don't know when you go to a website There's an IP address that's behind it but we can't remember a whole series of digits and numbers and that would create a lot of Trouble trying to do that. So when you go to Google comm it resolves to an IP address And it all happens behind the scenes. It's not magic But there's a lot of complexities behind it one of the best ways to block bad websites is When those bad websites come up you don't resolve them and you don't send the data and that's where quad 9 comes in They are a collaboration With the pack of clearing house global cyber alliance and IBM They have really simple instructions on to set it up I'm not covering the setup instructions go to their website quad 9 net and you can do the setup I'm here to talk about the speed and how that works. So The way their system works is they are constantly looking for new websites that are bad. They have an entire Team that's just working on this along with the currently 18 plus threat intelligence providers So as these threat intelligence companies find bad websites They add them to the bad website list and if you're curious if a website's on this list You can simply go to here and type it in and make that termination status not blocked and I'll check my website Good news. I'm not blocked either. They have all the details in the facts. It's explained DNS in more detail And they're not really filtering websites exactly. They're just filtering out the bad website So it's not like they're trying to make any type of determinations on other things like news or where you go on the web just to make sure that the websites are not directly malicious and this is how a lot of the Viruses and that work they got to contact out the to the bad website to get their payload information And that's a lot more of what these people are blocking. So you can read through all the details here But we're gonna jump into the benchmarks So I've loaded up the most common DNS first I have my local network and I have Google then I have quad 9 and I have open DNS in here So my local network is of course gonna be the fastest But my local network is a PF sense box with a cash DNS. So it's gonna be fast But these just for reference, we're gonna give you comparison here Google 8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 DNS is pretty popular and Really fast and the other one is open DNS, which is actually I believe one by Cisco They're really popular fast and they offer some filtering service as well. So let's go ahead and run the benchmark here and take a look All right. Now, it's actually still sorted here by speed. Let's go back to the tabular data So we can actually get the details here So here are the average knees are milliseconds and you can say well milliseconds don't matter that much Well, the way that works when you're going to a website is there's lots of look-ups. It's not just a website you into it's all this Feed websites and ads and everything in there. So all these milliseconds can add up to a slower experience So of course the local server that we have here is the fastest the next fastest server is the Google one So Google's response time was really there your average response times are here for cash versus un-cash versus the dot-com look-ups So reliability and all of them was a hundred percent not bad Then we have quad nine not substantially different thing Google So here we have an average of point zero six one and point zero four eight point zero four eight not bad Obviously Google did some of the best on the cached name even better than the other ones but look at how marginal that is point one oh one six versus point oh one seven and then we go down here a little further the slowest among them was the Open DNS, but I've used open DNS and I can't see that it created a slow experience So we're actually quite a bit faster on some of the dot-com look-up with Quad nine and not very far off from Google, which of course is a lot of people's favorite So I'm impressed with it like seven using it for actually a while I always wanted to give you the benchmark numbers here Well, we've been used to the office. We've put it in for a lot of clients. Unfortunately, they don't give a statistic. So I don't have some Calculatable statistic for exactly how many sites were blocked. I trust that they're Blocking the sites and because they're blocking so much behind the scenes For example like a site you go to may have another poll from a bad website And if they blocked it you're none the wiser that part of the page just didn't load and generally It's a part of page you don't want to load because it's some type of tracking ad or it's some type of malicious software trying to get into that Run in the back of that website. So my review of quad nine. I like it I really can't say I've had any problems with it a lot of people asked me about it when it first came out and I couldn't give you a conclusion until I said it there So we said it for our servers at our office. So everything runs through quad nine and it's caused no issues over the last Roughly month or so that we've been using it. I can't think of any times go man This won't resolve and we went to head to triangle around it We've actually locked it in to be the only DNS server so we could do a true test and like I said 30 days later I have not had any issues with it It seems to work really well and then because we're caching it at the PF sense level And that's what these results are here when we jump back to tab our data. We look at ours It is absolutely like Super fast there, but of course it's caching all the look ups And if you're running it in a business environment, that's generally what you're going to do is not put it on each Computer you're going to put it on whatever the head end of the server is for DNS for your business network But my conclusion is I like it. It's great. I don't see any reason not to use it Feel free. This is I'll leave a link. This is Steve Gibson's DNS benchmark test It's really easy to use is the free utility if you want to test it yourself and Determine whether or not you have a problem of speed because as I said right now I'm on con cast in a greater Detroit area and some people in different areas may find problems, but they have a lot of servers Globally, so you are likely to have a fast connection I think one or two people did mention it was a little bit slower But you got to take the trade-off is a little bit slower annoying enough that the safety risk So hopefully like the content here like and subscribe and hopefully this was helpful and stay safe out there Keep the tinfoil head on a little bit because there's a lot of bad websites. Thanks