CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 DNS Service

Hi Guys,

I am from Mumbai. I have changed my router dns from google's to Cloudfare. I have couple of Questions. Please help as i am a complete noob.
1. is this faster than the google's dns. Will it reduce latency. As I was on google's dns I felt cloudfare bit faster. What are your opinion.
2. is there any other dns provide like opendns which is faster than Cloudfare. Guys your help will be appreciated.
 
@iamaap
Do ping to different DNS and check the time taken for reply to reach you back

But note that speed of DNS reply also depends on what DNS service provider does.

Like OpenDNS does safety checks and blocks some sites. (phishing / malware / content filter)
Google DNS AFAIK does not do any such check

So google DNS would be few ms faster but provides lesser security.

Choice is yours.
 
@Sushubh iirc, Namebench has been abandoned for quite long
And honestly its far more complicated and annoying to use at times.
I would recomment @iamaap to check DNS Benchmark[1]instead
Its free and its works great, its far easy to add multiple DNS and compare everything together.

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To this thread.
Sadly for me 1.1.1.1 won't work and 1.0.0.1 works but its terrible

I was using OpenDNS[2] but every few months it glitches for me so I was using Level3 DNS but people said its for Level3 customers and for non-customers it jumps a lot for invalid results so I started using verisign[3] DNS but recently I been using quad9[4] and its been great.
Here are my ping results for each

I don't like using Google DNS because... paranoid
Code: 
ping 1.0.0.1

Pinging 1.0.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 1.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=51
Reply from 1.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=51
Reply from 1.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=51
Reply from 1.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=51

Ping statistics for 1.0.0.1:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 35ms, Maximum = 35ms, Average = 35ms

Rest all DNS ping at an average of 15ms. So until 1.1.1.1 is resolved I will keep using Quad9.

[1]DNS Benchmark - GRC's | DNS Nameserver Performance Benchmark
[2]OpenDNS - 208.67.222.123 208.67.220.123 Cloud Delivered Enterprise Security by OpenDNS
[3]Verisign DNS - 64.6.64.6 64.6.65.6 - Verisign Public DNS Offers DNS Stability And Security – Verisign
[4]Quad9 DNS - 9.9.9.9 149.112.112.112 - Quad9 DNS: Internet Security and Privacy in a Few Easy Steps
 
@Smh
thats odd, if you can't ping it. how can you visit it!?

Main reason is privacy and fast as their title says literally two very important things they can deliver better than anyone else.
They offer support for DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS and this means a lot when it comes to privacy and security. They will also wipe all logs within 24hours.

About their claim to be fastest, well cloudflare is more than just a CDN. CDN is just the one of its small byproduct of their main business. Apart from being a CDN, cloudflare can stop / divert attacks to a website, modify content on the fly as and when required, switch between IPv4 and IPv6 as per visitor, flexible SSL, etc. Point being they are a huge server doing more than content delivery. This makes them really good at DNS as fast DNS resolver is the vital to their product in general. Thats a major reason why Cloudflare DNS probably will be the fastest one on the internet without a doubt. They have no alternative motive to run a resolver unlike Google.

And DNS Performance They sit on top of list as of now.
 
plus they have datacenters around the world and more are added on a regular basis.
google has a larger advantage here. opendns loses here big time.
 
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