Best DNS choice for a financial institution?
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@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
So then what good/safe/secure/reliable/free DNS servers should I be using?? All I know of right now is google and DNSwatch..
Google. It's what everyone uses. Unless you are going to pay for something, which is perfectly fine as things like Cisco Umbrella really do a good job, you just use Google. Google's DNS servers are screaming fast, insanely secure, and standard the world over. Google's only competition was OpenDNS' free servers and they were only competitive when they did free filtering and other tools. Without that, Google is still the best. So no reason to look around for anything else.
rips hair out google it is then
LOL, remember it is IT, "keeping it simple" is often the right answer.
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For home, I use a Pi-Hole DNS cache in front of Google. Gives me some filtering and monitoring that Google does not.
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@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
For home, I use a Pi-Hole DNS cache in front of Google. Gives me some filtering and monitoring that Google does not.
For home you can use a free OpenDNS account and get filtering.
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@jaredbusch said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
For home, I use a Pi-Hole DNS cache in front of Google. Gives me some filtering and monitoring that Google does not.
For home you can use a free OpenDNS account and get filtering.
Probably only if not a home office
I didn't look much at the ToS, maybe that is okay.
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@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
So then what good/safe/secure/reliable/free DNS servers should I be using?? All I know of right now is google and DNSwatch..
Google. It's what everyone uses. Unless you are going to pay for something, which is perfectly fine as things like Cisco Umbrella really do a good job, you just use Google. Google's DNS servers are screaming fast, insanely secure, and standard the world over. Google's only competition was OpenDNS' free servers and they were only competitive when they did free filtering and other tools. Without that, Google is still the best. So no reason to look around for anything else.
rips hair out google it is then
LOL, remember it is IT, "keeping it simple" is often the right answer.
Yeah I can't remember why, but for some reason I remember changing my thoughts about "just setting DNS to google" ... like it wasn't the best thing to do or something.
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@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
So then what good/safe/secure/reliable/free DNS servers should I be using?? All I know of right now is google and DNSwatch..
Google. It's what everyone uses. Unless you are going to pay for something, which is perfectly fine as things like Cisco Umbrella really do a good job, you just use Google. Google's DNS servers are screaming fast, insanely secure, and standard the world over. Google's only competition was OpenDNS' free servers and they were only competitive when they did free filtering and other tools. Without that, Google is still the best. So no reason to look around for anything else.
rips hair out google it is then
LOL, remember it is IT, "keeping it simple" is often the right answer.
Yeah I can't remember why, but for some reason I remember changing my thoughts about "just setting DNS to google" ... like it wasn't the best thing to do or something.
I made a DNS change on our domain a few weeks back that took almost 24 hours to propagate through Google DNS for some reason. Even the ISP DNS updated in less than 2 hours. But aside from that one instance, I have generally had better results with Google DNS servers than anyone else.
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@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
So then what good/safe/secure/reliable/free DNS servers should I be using?? All I know of right now is google and DNSwatch..
Google. It's what everyone uses. Unless you are going to pay for something, which is perfectly fine as things like Cisco Umbrella really do a good job, you just use Google. Google's DNS servers are screaming fast, insanely secure, and standard the world over. Google's only competition was OpenDNS' free servers and they were only competitive when they did free filtering and other tools. Without that, Google is still the best. So no reason to look around for anything else.
rips hair out google it is then
LOL, remember it is IT, "keeping it simple" is often the right answer.
Yeah I can't remember why, but for some reason I remember changing my thoughts about "just setting DNS to google" ... like it wasn't the best thing to do or something.
Best thing is likely a service like Umbrella. But for free, nothing will touch Google.
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@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
So then what good/safe/secure/reliable/free DNS servers should I be using?? All I know of right now is google and DNSwatch..
Google. It's what everyone uses. Unless you are going to pay for something, which is perfectly fine as things like Cisco Umbrella really do a good job, you just use Google. Google's DNS servers are screaming fast, insanely secure, and standard the world over. Google's only competition was OpenDNS' free servers and they were only competitive when they did free filtering and other tools. Without that, Google is still the best. So no reason to look around for anything else.
rips hair out google it is then
LOL, remember it is IT, "keeping it simple" is often the right answer.
Yeah I can't remember why, but for some reason I remember changing my thoughts about "just setting DNS to google" ... like it wasn't the best thing to do or something.
Best thing is likely a service like Umbrella. But for free, nothing will touch Google.
An alternative to Umbrella is Strongarm.io. They have recently added content filtering options to their service which was originally only designed to interrupt connections to malicious sites.
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@jaredbusch said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
So then what good/safe/secure/reliable/free DNS servers should I be using?? All I know of right now is google and DNSwatch..
Google. It's what everyone uses. Unless you are going to pay for something, which is perfectly fine as things like Cisco Umbrella really do a good job, you just use Google. Google's DNS servers are screaming fast, insanely secure, and standard the world over. Google's only competition was OpenDNS' free servers and they were only competitive when they did free filtering and other tools. Without that, Google is still the best. So no reason to look around for anything else.
rips hair out google it is then
LOL, remember it is IT, "keeping it simple" is often the right answer.
Yeah I can't remember why, but for some reason I remember changing my thoughts about "just setting DNS to google" ... like it wasn't the best thing to do or something.
Best thing is likely a service like Umbrella. But for free, nothing will touch Google.
An alternative to Umbrella is Strongarm.io. They have recently added content filtering options to their service which was originally only designed to interrupt connections to malicious sites.
Yes. Probably much cheaper than Cisco, too. OpenDNS was great before Cisco bought them. I'd personally be pretty wary of using a Cisco service, my interactions with Cisco are pretty consistent that they lack integrity and so I don't see them as a company I would trust in any situation where they were involved in security. They don't seem to have a lot of ethics and that is a big deal when talking about security products - what good is their security if you can't trust the people who are the security people!
Definitely check out Strongarm.io. If you are going to be in Austin in two weeks, Strongarm will be hanging out with us on Sixth!
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@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@jaredbusch said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
So then what good/safe/secure/reliable/free DNS servers should I be using?? All I know of right now is google and DNSwatch..
Google. It's what everyone uses. Unless you are going to pay for something, which is perfectly fine as things like Cisco Umbrella really do a good job, you just use Google. Google's DNS servers are screaming fast, insanely secure, and standard the world over. Google's only competition was OpenDNS' free servers and they were only competitive when they did free filtering and other tools. Without that, Google is still the best. So no reason to look around for anything else.
rips hair out google it is then
LOL, remember it is IT, "keeping it simple" is often the right answer.
Yeah I can't remember why, but for some reason I remember changing my thoughts about "just setting DNS to google" ... like it wasn't the best thing to do or something.
Best thing is likely a service like Umbrella. But for free, nothing will touch Google.
An alternative to Umbrella is Strongarm.io. They have recently added content filtering options to their service which was originally only designed to interrupt connections to malicious sites.
Yes. Probably much cheaper than Cisco, too. OpenDNS was great before Cisco bought them. I'd personally be pretty wary of using a Cisco service, my interactions with Cisco are pretty consistent that they lack integrity and so I don't see them as a company I would trust in any situation where they were involved in security. They don't seem to have a lot of ethics and that is a big deal when talking about security products - what good is their security if you can't trust the people who are the security people!
Definitely check out Strongarm.io. If you are going to be in Austin in two weeks, Strongarm will be hanging out with us on Sixth!
Same impression I get
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@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@jaredbusch said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:
So then what good/safe/secure/reliable/free DNS servers should I be using?? All I know of right now is google and DNSwatch..
Google. It's what everyone uses. Unless you are going to pay for something, which is perfectly fine as things like Cisco Umbrella really do a good job, you just use Google. Google's DNS servers are screaming fast, insanely secure, and standard the world over. Google's only competition was OpenDNS' free servers and they were only competitive when they did free filtering and other tools. Without that, Google is still the best. So no reason to look around for anything else.
rips hair out google it is then
LOL, remember it is IT, "keeping it simple" is often the right answer.
Yeah I can't remember why, but for some reason I remember changing my thoughts about "just setting DNS to google" ... like it wasn't the best thing to do or something.
Best thing is likely a service like Umbrella. But for free, nothing will touch Google.
An alternative to Umbrella is Strongarm.io. They have recently added content filtering options to their service which was originally only designed to interrupt connections to malicious sites.
Yes. Probably much cheaper than Cisco, too. OpenDNS was great before Cisco bought them. I'd personally be pretty wary of using a Cisco service, my interactions with Cisco are pretty consistent that they lack integrity and so I don't see them as a company I would trust in any situation where they were involved in security. They don't seem to have a lot of ethics and that is a big deal when talking about security products - what good is their security if you can't trust the people who are the security people!
Definitely check out Strongarm.io. If you are going to be in Austin in two weeks, Strongarm will be hanging out with us on Sixth!
Same impression I get
Have you tried Strongarm? How do you like it?
