Is there a good reason to use an alternate DNS service, and if so should I choose Google or OpenDNS? EDIT: Just for my personal home network. Two comps, Xbox, Blu-ray, TV, etc.
$ bash ./dnstest.sh |sort -k 22 -n test1 test2 test3 test4 test5 test6 test7 test8 test9 test10 Average cloudflare 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 4 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1.30 norton 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2.00 neustar 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 1 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 22 ms 3.90 cleanbrowsing 11 ms 23 ms 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms Failed Connection Attempts - OpenDNS Can anyone assist with this issue or have seen it before? Basically we keep getting hundreds of blocked 'threats' in our logs from an unknown source to the OpenDNS server IP's: We do use OpenDNS for filtering purposes as well and keep the DNS Filter off (for now anyway) on the FortiGate. If you are already registered, login to OpenDNS. 2. Go to Dashboard. Click the button “Add a network” to start with the service. For existing customers, if you have it configured already skip this step. You can also find the option to add network under Settings. OpenDNS makes a client that installs on individual computers. It redirects non-domain queries directly itself (DNS = 127.0.0.1) and then to the OpenDNS servers, but retains internal resolution. Unfortunately not. The Hub 6 will only use BT DNS servers. I don't believe there was a way to use custom DNS on the Hub 5 either. There is no menu option that I am aware of that allowed that.
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