Post by mslo79 on Nov 29, 2019 9:23:16 GMT
It's probably a good idea to change your DNS server from your ISP's (which just about everyone reading this will be on their own ISP's(i.e. Internet Service Provider)) to one of the following...
-Google = 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
NOTE: here is a site to test whether your DNS setting have taken effect... www.dnsleaktest.com/ ; just click the 'standard test'. like do it before and then after as you will see things change. also, remember to flush your DNS cache after changing your DNS server settings as this will help ensure things go smoothly... techwiser.com/flush-dns-cache/
p.s. here is just one site (there are a fair amount of others which one can look into if they want by searching online) which talks about this DNS stuff a bit... techwiser.com/best-dns-servers/ (not all listed are free but most are (I suggest just sticking to the free ones as they are easily good enough
)) ; some even do extra content filtering etc if you want to try one of those. but personally I suspect the safest choices are OpenDNS or Google since they have been around a while and likely have 100% uptime or close to it.
-Google = 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
-OpenDNS = 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 (you can use these straight up or if you make a account on their website you can tweak things a bit)
if your wondering why there is two IP addresses for each, one is primary and other is a secondary backup in case one goes down (it does not matter which order you use them whther 8.8.8.8 as primary or secondary and the same with 8.8.4.4 etc. I am sure you get the gist ). it's standard stuff.
). it's standard stuff.NOTE: here is a site to test whether your DNS setting have taken effect... www.dnsleaktest.com/ ; just click the 'standard test'. like do it before and then after as you will see things change. also, remember to flush your DNS cache after changing your DNS server settings as this will help ensure things go smoothly... techwiser.com/flush-dns-cache/
I suggest setting those up on your router so any device connected will take advantage of your DNS server settings, which I did (I am using Google but OpenDNS is probably a solid alternative as they have been around for quite a few years now). but if you can't figure that out etc, you can always adjust it on a per device basis.
one last thing... if for whatever reason you want to restore things to their defaults (as in like you never did any of what I said here) you can just reverse things and put it back to automatic and your ISP DNS servers will take over by default and you can check with that dnsleaktest website above to confirm it.
p.s. here is just one site (there are a fair amount of others which one can look into if they want by searching online) which talks about this DNS stuff a bit... techwiser.com/best-dns-servers/ (not all listed are free but most are (I suggest just sticking to the free ones as they are easily good enough
)) ; some even do extra content filtering etc if you want to try one of those. but personally I suspect the safest choices are OpenDNS or Google since they have been around a while and likely have 100% uptime or close to it.