The irony is that off-net DNS servers produce a worse experience than on-net ones in all but the most egregious cases.
-- Mike Hammett ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nate Burke" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2026 9:43:29 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ISP DNS Probably 10 years ago, I had a 'network guru kid' call and want me to help him change his DNS servers, because he had just read an article about how his internet would be a lot faster if he used the Google DNS servers. On 1/19/2026 9:14 AM, Josh Luthman wrote: Because in this country the ISP is simply evil. There's no logic to it, it's just a blind opinion. I'm sure the cellco is doing some sort of inspection/manipulation. But it's perfectly acceptable if they do it. The kids with no networking knowledge love these articles and the writers love the ad revenue. On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 9:01 AM Ken Hohhof < [email protected] > wrote: Why are media people so convinced that ISPs are snooping your DNS queries and even manipulating DNS to redirect you? https://www.howtogeek.com/your-router-is-probably-using-the-wrong-dns/ Also the assumption that a small ISP can’t run DNS servers that can handle the load (it’s not difficult). The only argument I can see is that Google or Cloudflare has a bigger user base and is more likely to have results cached. They never seem to offer any evidence that ISPs are actually tracking you though your DNS queries or manipulating the results, they just assume because it’s technically possible, it must be happening. Throw in a little “all ISPs are evil” bias. It reminds me of all the warnings about public USB charging stations and “juice jacking” despite no actual reports of this happening. -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
