After testing its DNS beta service for over 2 years plus, Adguard has finally launched the official release of it's DNS service.
What is DNS anyway? DNS stands for Domain Name System, is the phonebook or phone directory of the Internet. Whenever we want to access online information via domain names like techfoe.com, google.com, etc, we type the name of the domain we want to visit. However, Web browsers won't understand our request because they interact via Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to load Internet Internet resources. Now this is where a DNS comes in to translate a domain to an IP address for the Web browsers.
Though they are many choice when it comes to DNS service, Adguard says that their own DNS service is privacy focused.
Adguard supports DNSCrypt, DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPs. These protocols help in protecting users information from man-in-the-middle attacks, eavesdropping, hijacking, tracking etc. An encryption is created between the communicating device and the DNS server to protecting the users data. Android devices (Android 9) has built-in support for DNS-over-TLS while DNS-over-HTTPS don't support Droid device for now, though Adguard is working on the next version for Android devices.
There are two versions of Adguard DNS that are available. There's a normal version for the regular use, and a Family protection version. The Family protection version blocks adult content and ensures that theres a Safe Search in search engines.
These are the DNS servers: - For Default; 176.103.130.130 or 176.103.130.131
- For Family protection; 176.103.130.132 or 176.103.130.134
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Internet giant Google has announced that its public DNS service now supports DNS-over-TLS. Now that means Android 9 users can use it as the system-wide DNS service on the device.
You might be wondering what DNS means. DNS stands for Domain Name System and can be described as the phonebook or phone directory of the Internet. This is how it works; whenever we want to access web information via domain names like www.techfoe.com, www.google.com etc, we type the name of the domain we want to visit.
It doesn't stop there. The web browsers that we want to visit won't understand our request because they interact via Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to load Internet resources. Now, the DNS service is what translate the domain to an IP address for it to be readable by the Web browser(s).
"Starting today, users can secure queries between their devices and Google Public DNS with DNS-over-TLS, preserving their privacy and integrity," the Google post read.
The later went on to explain how Google has "implemented the DNS-over-TLS specification along with the RCF 7766 recommendations to minimize the overhead of using TLS. These include support for TLS 1.3 (for faster connections and improved security), TCP fast open, and pipelining of multiple queries and out-of-order responses over a single connection. All of this is deployed with Google's serving infrastructure which provides reliable and scalable management for DNS-over-TLS connections."
AdGuard in December also launched it's own DNS service, after running the beta service for over 2 years. The service also had support for Android 9 devices too.
Google made a well detailed instructions on how to configure this feature on Android. Click here to view.
