We have new DNS service Quad9 free of cost to protect our computers from threats. When we configure the DNS addresses of our computer, we usually put Google’s: 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4. But there are many other options available, and today we will talk about an especially interesting one, recently launched by the Global Cyber Alliance ( GCA).
GCA is an organization founded by police and research organizations to help reduce cybercrime. Now they have partnered with IBM and Packet Clearing House. That allow people who configure their DNS 9.9.9.9 to get protected from malicious sites. As it will block access to websites associated with botnets, phishing attacks and other dangers digital.
How Quad9 protects from threats?
Quad9 is the name of your new service, and works like any other public DNS server, except that it will not return name resolutions for sites that behave like threats.
Phil Rettinger, president and chief operating officer of GCA, said in Ars that the service would be confidential. That is it will work without registering the addresses that make the DNS requests. They indicate that they are anonymizing the data, yielding the privacy side.
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Quad9 also generates a whitelist of domains that will never get on the blacklist. Also, the gold list that includes the Microsoft Azure cloud, Google and Amazon web services. The blocked sites, the whitelist, and the gold lists get into an RPZ format before being sent to the DNS server clusters around the world maintained by Packet Clearing House.
The Quad9 service is free, so you can use 9.9.9.9 without problems starting today.