I work in cyber security so I’m already embarrassed to not know this. But I do know how DNS works. I just don’t understand what people mean when they say “secure DNS”. Ive tried looking it up, but it keeps falling flat on me.
I use nextdns on my computer and phone, but I still don’t know what it’s doing, how it works, or anything. Can you explain what makes services like nextDNS secure, or why people change or even have different DNS servers configured?
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Lol, I’m in cyber too, and was kinda confused too. It doesn’t seem like “Secure DNS” is really a technical term.
It looks like it might be used by different companies as a marketing term for different things. Like Norton seems to call their DNS over HTTPS suite “secure DNS”. This kind of “secure dns” would be secure because the requests are encrypted and can’t be sniffed.
Another thing could be DNSSEC, which I’m not 100% familiar with, but it looks like it more or less uses certificates to sign DNS responses to prevent things like response forgery.
Now then, your nextDNS service seems to be marketing more or less domain blacklisting + DNSSEC.
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