 Announcing 1.1.1.1 the fastest privacy first consumer DNS service privacy first well let's explain that a little bit so DNS is privacy problem DNS is a old protocol and like most of the internet in general it was not designed with your privacy in mind first it just wasn't a thought it wasn't a feature it's not that it was designed to spy on you it is easily used to spy on you because it just was not designed with privacy in mind good distinction there it's not like it was designed as a spying device but it turns out it's a really easy one to use as a spying device DNS censorship definitely a real problem but that being said one of the problems is it passes in the clear so your ISP can choose to block this so they bring up Turkey which Turkey had blocked famously just DNS in their country via their providers so people would spray paint the 8.8 which is the Google's DNS provider so you could get to services that were blocked for such as Twitter but this is 2018 that was 2014 in 2018 Turkey has already blocked Cloudflare's DNS so so much for that they already are pretty much going to block it out of the box that's any of these countries that really support censorship they're going to block things that being said it's novel I get what they're doing but yeah they're going to get blocked building a consumer DNS service now they were talking about different performances they have some of their performance we're going to do our own performance test I love that they're using 1.1.1.1.1 it's easy to remember and they also have 1.0.0.1 so those are both addresses that they have they did release in April 1st but it's not a joke but it is a public DNS now something kind of cool and this is more future stuff they do support DNS sec as does quad 9 which is my preferred DNS provider they do have a very robust reliable network because if you're not familiar with Cloudflare they're a massive content delivery network and they have presence everywhere so their their servers and delivery farm is all over the place so definitely solid performance you're gonna get out of them based on the infrastructure provided they run it right and these guys are smart so I have a feeling they're gonna run it right nice thing is they're also working towards DNS over HTTPS now that is available in limited I know Google's doing some experimenting with it I think you can get some plugins for Android for it once DNS starts moving there and goes over encrypting connections that'd be great for now DNS does not pass encrypted over so I'll leave this article so you can read all this and all those details but let's actually go in here and run the test benchmark so while we're running a benchmark to go over which ones we have my local DNS which is 192 with 6168 3.1 does use quad 9 then we have 1.1.1 which is our Cloudflare DNS then we have 8.8.8 which is our Google and then we have 9.9.9 which is the quad 9 which like I said I did review of before I'm happy with quad 9 because they do some filtering in terms of malicious websites that I didn't notice anything Cloudflare mentioned about malicious website filtering that being said here are the results so obviously local DNS is always going to be really really fast but Cloudflare comes out on top for speed they are they aren't lying about the speed here so their average of 0.01 millisecond for a cash name 0.045 and 0.025 on lookups pretty impressive now this is going to be subjective and this is going to vary from where you're at I'm here on Comcast in the Detroit area the difference in speed you're going to see based on different areas that's going to happen now just so you know they're using point-to-presence so point-to-presence means 1.1.1 isn't a geographically pinned IP address so it's not like that server is located in one place that server because of their content delivery network is so big they're able to give points of presence wherever is geographically close and they have all that listed on there if you want to find out where the closest server to you is so you're actually able to use this DNS resolver not just here in Detroit for good speed but if you're in California if you're in Europe if you're in Germany if you're anywhere that this isn't blocked they have a point of presence closer to you than one single server so it doesn't have to traverse as much and this is the same server the same methodologies used by the other companies but we can see when we're looking at the numbers it is fast but it's not substantially faster so quad 9 being coming out on the slowest I actually ran this twice the first time it came out on above Google now it came up below Google you're gonna get some of that you're gonna get some speed variations from time to time a matter of fact last time Google I've resolved all at 100 apparently a couple resolutions got dropped now a lot of people go what about filtering I have to trust these companies not to filter it so far and I know some people said but that there's government money that went into the quad 9 so far I haven't found any website that I went to that didn't resolve and if you ever did it's easy enough to go look up with a resolver against other DNS's and see what the variations are in the site resolving no site I've ever tried to go to has not resolved so that I know of or that I could speak to I have not seen any sites censored I haven't had any that failed to resolve we also don't go to a lot of scam sites and things like that at work so take that for what it's worth I don't have the best testing methodology they don't have a list of questionable domains to see if they filter each one feel free to do that on your own time I just haven't really put any time into that but this at least gives you an idea yes it's faster it's good they claim to keep logs a very brief amount of time which is great but like I said it doesn't necessarily dramatically increase your security or invisibility on the internet but it is still going to be better than using your ISPs internet I'm still gonna stick with using DNS from quad 9 because they make me happy and they at least seem to have some research into malicious websites so any extra layer of protection there is a great thing but you do have some options out there you can give them a try seems pretty fast and if they are at least working towards this whole DNS over HAPS I know there's some availability with some plugins for that right now that's great because that would actually hide some of your DNS but the reality is for now most of the devices on my network don't have that don't support that they at least do support DNS sec and by the way Cloudflare and quad 9 both support DNS sec I think Google does as well so feel it's content here like and subscribe those are my thoughts on the 1.1.1 I don't know I guess people are more excited than me about it but it works I tested it I benchmarked it go ahead and download Steve Gibson's DNS benchmark tool benchmark yourself see if it's faster than what you're currently using and if it is switch to it you might you might like the faster resolve times you get on there all right thanks if you like to content here like and subscribe