Acrylic DNS Proxy (free, open source) does the job. It creates a proxy DNS server (on your own computer) with its own hosts file. The hosts file accepts wildcards.

You can apply these IP addresses 199.85.126.20 and 199.85.127.20 within your network DNS to block porn websites. They are supported by Norton.

We have been doing VPS on other providers for years just to test things out and add some International DNS pingers.

* New Jersey: http://dns-nj.gdbi.info/

I'm using SD for my DNS slaves. recommended

* DNS server

Pretty standard stuff there, to be expected. Though note that the SLA doesn't cover their hosted DNS service, arguably more important than instance availability? As it stands, if your DNS is important

May I ask is this offer still open? I only ask as I require another host as a replacement authoritive DNSSEC DNS server and NL location would be ideal.

Thanks Radi for the offer but US is no good as most of my DNS traffic is UK based and UK, NL and DE offers the best latency overall to my users.

Also we offer free DNS Manager that allows you to control all the DNS aspects directly from your Virtono client area. You can add DNS zones, create A , MX, CNAME and all types of records for your doma

I am looking for idealy a UK providor which has been in business for several years which has a very reliable network uptime to replace some of VPS which are used for my DNS servers.

IPV6_ADDR=2400:6180:0:X0::44:XXX1 # You can also assign this as DNS server in dnsmasq config.

Yup, I've experienced nothing but superb speeds with Cloudflare's DNS. I only use them for DNS and I don't enable anything else, works perfectly.

For DNS-only, cloudflare works a treat. They have their issues if you enabled the CDN due to constant attacks to the network but as dns only, it's probably the best out there and free.

Solvedns publishes monthly reports with DNS speed comparisons. Cloudflare almost always comes up in the top 3 of fastest resolve times, and they're free.

I tried to give Amazon's DNS a try, and it looks like Namecheap's DNS immediately stops responding to DNS lookups as soon as you switch.

-Free Instant Reverse DNS

Surprisingly, it shows that Cloudflare's free DNS is the #3 fastest overall. And namecheap's servers historically have ~95% uptime, which sounds absurdly bad.

Just don't use Digitalocean's default nameservers because they are terrible.

I thought about this a month or two ago when Namecheap's DNS servers were DDoSed. My web server was up, my hosted email was up, but none of that mattered since the name resolution was down for as lon