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27-11-2022 10:22 PM - edited 28-11-2022 10:05 AM
Keep your family safe by changing your DNS setting, This will block websites depending on which DNS you select. No filtering is 100% but it can help to protect your family and pc
Google’s DNS servers do not have any blocking or filtering built-in and is one of the fastest DNS servers on the internet
Change your router or laptop DNS to:
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4
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Quad9 is probably the fastest DNS server on the internet
Change your router or laptop DNS to:
9.9.9.10 no blocking or filtering built-in
149.112.112.110 no blocking or filtering built-in
Malwere Blocking DNSSEC Validation filters
Change your router or laptop DNS to:
9.9.9.9
149.112.112.112
Secured w/ECS: Malware blocking, DNSSEC Validation, ECS enabled filters
Change your router or laptop DNS to:
9.9.9.11
149.112.112.11
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Cloudflare is one of the fastest DNS servers on the internet
Change your router or laptop DNS to:
1.1.1.1 no blocking or filtering built-in
Malware filters
Change your router or laptop DNS to:
1.1.1.2
1.0.0.2
Malware and adults filters
Change your router or laptop DNS to:
1.1.1.3
1.0.0.3
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Norton DNS A filters malware, phishing and scam sites
Change your router or laptop DNS to:
199.85.126.10
199.85.127.10
Norton DNS B filters malware, phishing, scam and pornographic sites
Change your router or laptop DNS to:
199.85.126.20
199.85.127.20
Norton DNS C filters malware, phishing, scam, pornographic, mature content, gambling, alcohol, and crime sites
Change your router or laptop DNS to:
199.85.126.30
199.85.127.30
There are loads of websites that will show you how to change the DNS. Just google how to change DNS in my router or Laptop with windows 10, windows 11 etc
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If you are using standard Vodafone DNS and want to keep using it check this out
28-11-2022 12:41 AM
Another thing to try which blocks out a lot is use host files from this site.
https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
28-11-2022 07:22 AM
It might be a good idea how to use hosts files and the limitations of using them on individual devices. They're far more effective if you can actually get the router to use them and automatically update them.
28-11-2022 09:41 AM
Also Quad9 https://www.quad9.net/ provide various DNS types.
28-11-2022 01:49 PM
I agree, quad9 are top of my list now and I use them for DoT.
28-11-2022 03:01 PM
@Ripshod What's DoT?
28-11-2022 03:15 PM
Sorry, DNS over TLS
05-12-2022 10:46 AM
For the non-Windows folks in the world of *nix
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Linux_and_Unix_DNS_Configuration