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Upstream DNS Providers
The SmartGW setup offers 9 options for an upstream DNS Provider during the initial setup.
NordVPN
Google
OpenDNS
Level3
Norton
Comodo
DNS.WATCH
Quad9
CloudFlare DNS
Custom
During the SmartGW setting page you select 1 of the 9 preset providers or enter one of your own. Below you can find more information on each of the DNS Providers, along with some additional providers which have different kinds of extra filtering options (spam, phishing, adult content, etc).
Default upstream DNS provider on the Pi-hole.
- 103.86.96.100
- 103.86.99.100
More information on NordVPN DNS
Default upstream DNS provider on the Pi-hole.
- 8.8.8.8
- 8.8.4.4
More information on Google Public DNS
Built-in features include a phishing filter.
- 208.67.222.222
- 208.67.220.220
More information on OpenDNS Home + OpenDNS Wiki Page
OpenDNS also provides the OpenDNS FamilyShield (free) option. The service blocks pornographic content, including our “Pornography,” “Tasteless,” and “Sexuality” categories, in addition to proxies and anonymizers (which can render filtering useless). It also blocks phishing and some malware.
- 208.67.222.123
- 208.67.220.123
- 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:ffff:d043:de7b (ipv6)
- 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:ffff:d043:dc7b (ipv6)
More information on OpenDNS FamilyShield + OpenDNS FamilyShield introduction Blog
This DNS service does no filtering of itself, but redirects mistyped URL to Level 3 Web Search.
- 4.2.2.1
- 4.2.2.2
Norton provides 3 different public DNS servers with filtering. For the default pi-hole installation DNS policy 1 would be used:
DNS Policy 1 - Security The Norton ConnectSafe free DNS servers block sites hosting malware, phishing schemes, and scams.
- 199.85.126.10
- 199.85.127.10
DNS Policy 2 - Security + Pornography To block those sites in policy 1 plus those with pornographic content.
- 199.85.126.20
- 199.85.127.20
DNS Policy 3 - Security + Pornography + Other To block those sites in policy 1 & 2 plus those Norton deems "non-family friendly."
- 199.85.126.30
- 199.85.127.30
More information on Norton ConnectSafe
SecureDNS references a real-time block list (RBL) of harmful websites (i.e. phishing sites, malware sites, spyware sites, and parked domains that may contain excessive advertising including pop-up and/or pop-under advertisements, etc.) and will warn you whenever you attempt to access a site containing potentially threatening content
- 8.26.56.26
- 8.20.247.20
More information on Comodo Secure DNS
DNS.WATCH offers Fast, free and uncensored DNS resolution.
- 84.200.69.80
- 84.200.70.40
- 2001:1608:10:25::1c04:b12f (ipv6)
- 2001:1608:10:25::9249:d69b (ipv6)
Quad9 is a free, recursive, anycast DNS platform that provides end users robust security protections, high-performance, and privacy.
- 9.9.9.9
- 149.112.112.112
- 2620:fe::fe (ipv6)
CloudFlare will never log your IP address (the way other companies identify you). The independent DNS monitor DNSPerf ranks 1.1.1.1 the fastest DNS service in the world.
- 1.1.1.1
- 1.0.0.1
More information on Cloudflare DNS
With custom, you'll choose your favorite DNS provider. If you care about net independence and privacy I'll suggest you give a look at : OpenNIC DNS Project
There are even more public DNS server, you can find many (with some extra information) the About.com website. A benchmark of these DNS servers (by Gibson Research Center) is available here
This page was copied from Pi hole Wiki