Open and uncensored DNS servers

Posted in Wednesday, January 13, 2010 ¬ 14:52h.webmasterComments Off

Navigating the internet, such as visiting a website or downloading software, requires one or more domain names to be resolved.

These domain names are resolved by domain name service (DNS) servers – and most likely the DNS servers, offered by the internet service provider (ISP).

Unfortunately, DNS servers at the ISP might support other hidden features as well, such as logging, analyzing, filtering, blocking, redirecting, advertising and government internet censorship.

The solution is to use alternative open and uncensored DNS servers, where open means, that queries from any source is accepted.

We recommend using censurfridns.dk. Other alternatives are Google Public DNS and OpenDNS.

ns1.censurfridns.dk / 89.233.43.71 / 2002:59e9:2b42:1:75::71 ns2.censurfridns.dk / 89.104.194.142 / 2002:5968:c28e::53

If your network gets its DNS servers via DHCP, then changing DNS servers can be done by prepending open and uncensored DNS servers to the DHCP client configuration.

If your network has its own local DNS servers, which forwards its external queries to DNS servers at the ISP, then changing DNS servers can be done by prepending open and uncensored DNS servers to the configuration of the local DNS servers.