Should I switch my router to cloudflares 1.1.1.1

[IR76]

Is it good to change my routers default DNS to cloudflares? If so why and is it safe?

[YoungBlade]

It's what I did. It makes DNS lookups a lot faster than my ISP's DNS server, so it makes loading websites faster.

 

As for it being safe, you've got a similar level of risk whether you use Cloudflare, OpenDNS, Google, or you just keep using the one provided by your ISP. In all these cases, you're trusting a big corporation - it's just your choice which one.

[IR76]

1 minute ago, YoungBlade said:

It's what I did. It makes DNS lookups a lot faster than my ISP's DNS server, so it makes loading websites faster.

 

As for it being safe, you've got a similar level of risk whether you use Cloudflare, OpenDNS, Google, or you just keep using the one provided by your ISP. In all these cases, you're trusting a big corporation - it's just your choice which one.

Fair point, great thank you I'll look into it in detail and most likely switch to it.

[GuiltySpark_]

For me, nothing benches faster than my ISP's default DNS servers and I've tested this a handful of times over the last few years. Haven't seen a reason to swap.

[Alex Atkin UK]

On 5/8/2024 at 7:31 PM, GuiltySpark_ said:

For me, nothing benches faster than my ISP's default DNS servers and I've tested this a handful of times over the last few years. Haven't seen a reason to swap.

This is how it should be, if your ISP are doing their job properly.  But ISPs are more prone to error or just badly maintaining their servers.

[LAwLz]

You could always run namebench to see which DNS responds the fastest. 

But chances are it will be a rather miniscule difference, and DNS replies are cached anyway so the difference of a few milliseconds will only occur once when you access a new site (for the day). 

 

It's not like changing the DNS makes browsing around on websites faster.