WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.760 Last time I said, what if I told you that you can double, triple, or even 00:00:05.760 --> 00:00:11.500 quadruple your internet speed with one easy trick. The answer was to just spend 00:00:11.500 --> 00:00:16.480 more money on extra internet connections. So I can understand your hesitation 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:21.180 about clicking this video. Thank you for giving me another chance, because guess 00:00:21.180 --> 00:00:28.120 what? It's redemption time! This new tip that works on PC, Mac, Linux, and even your phone 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:33.700 will make your internet anywhere from a little bit to a metric butt-ton faster 00:00:33.700 --> 00:00:39.520 in less than a minute, for free. There's a new DNS in town, baby. 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:50.890 Private Internet Access is the VPN service that encrypts all of your 00:00:50.890 --> 00:00:54.750 internet traffic and uses a safe, protected IP. It's got tons of other 00:00:54.750 --> 00:00:59.350 useful features and you can check it out at the link below. So today's tip is 00:00:59.350 --> 00:01:05.050 actually nothing new. Using a faster or more reliable DNS service than the one 00:01:05.050 --> 00:01:05.330 that you're using right now is going to make your internet speed a lot faster. 00:01:05.330 --> 00:01:10.190 The new development that your good-for-nothing ISP assigns to you is something people have been doing for years. 00:01:10.190 --> 00:01:15.650 The new development is that Cloudflare, best known for their anti-DDoS 00:01:15.650 --> 00:01:20.030 protection service, has released a competitor to major public DNS 00:01:20.030 --> 00:01:24.890 providers like Google and OpenDNS. They're calling it the Internet's 00:01:24.890 --> 00:01:31.010 fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service, which is kind of a lot of 00:01:31.010 --> 00:01:35.030 qualifiers. But according to third-party DNS analytics sites, 00:01:35.030 --> 00:01:43.610 DNS Perf 1.1.1.1 is either the fastest or nearly the fastest DNS across all 00:01:43.610 --> 00:01:49.320 regions. So let's show you guys how to switch to it. Cloudflare actually has 00:01:49.320 --> 00:01:53.540 step-by-step instructions for all of your devices right on their website. We're 00:01:53.540 --> 00:01:56.660 gonna have that linked below. But for your convenience, we've also included 00:01:56.660 --> 00:02:01.480 screen capture for the most popular platforms. They're all basically a 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:04.860 variation of digging into your network settings and reconfiguring your 00:02:04.860 --> 00:02:14.240 DNS from auto to 1.1.1.1 with 1.0.0.1 as a backup. Advanced users with many 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:18.300 devices in their homes may want to configure their router to manually use 00:02:18.300 --> 00:02:22.560 Cloudflare's DNS as well, which will save them the hassle of doing this rigmarole 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:29.900 on each device individually. And that was it. But we wouldn't blame you guys for 00:02:29.900 --> 00:02:35.000 not wanting to switch to some newfangled DNS resolver. 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:40.740 Before we've explained what that is and proven that it actually matters, which is 00:02:40.740 --> 00:02:48.360 why this video is not over yet. So then what does a DNS do? Well, humans remember 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:55.100 and use domain names like google.com or Linus-techtips.com. But these pages 00:02:55.100 --> 00:03:04.960 actually live at an IP address like 104.27.140.189 or with IPv6. It's even harder to remember. 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:10.160 Meaning that every time you type in a domain name, the translation to that page's 00:03:10.160 --> 00:03:16.360 IP address has to be looked up. But this is not as simple as flipping through a virtual 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:22.680 rolodex. These records are decentralized and stored on the servers of multiple different 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:28.960 registrars all over the world, which is why you need a service to look up correct IP addresses 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:34.900 after you press enter. And since you can't start loading a page until you know 00:03:34.900 --> 00:03:41.800 where it is, using a slow, overloaded, or unreliable DNS server can noticeably slow 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:47.360 down virtually everything that you do online. So to find out how much faster Cloudflare's 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:53.680 option is, we used GRC's free DNS benchmarking tool. And the results are a little mixed, 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:59.220 but also very promising. So the latency on retrieving cached pages, things that we have 00:03:59.220 --> 00:04:04.680 already searched for, was actually lower with our local DNS servers, which makes sense because 00:04:04.900 --> 00:04:10.520 they're physically closer to us. But when it came to uncached names and .com lookups, 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:15.460 Cloudflare's servers came out ahead, especially when our primary DNS name server failed, since 00:04:15.460 --> 00:04:20.220 our secondary name server turned out to be dead, which slows things down, and our tertiary 00:04:20.220 --> 00:04:25.860 and quaternary name servers are Google's public DNS, which aren't as fast. But putting the 00:04:25.860 --> 00:04:33.420 numbers aside, one dot, one dot, let's just call it one dot, it felt faster. New tabs 00:04:33.420 --> 00:04:34.420 opened instantaneously. 00:04:34.900 --> 00:04:39.840 And videos on YouTube loaded more snappily than we were used to. Though it should be 00:04:39.840 --> 00:04:45.340 noted that this trick won't affect the video quality that you can play back at. That still 00:04:45.340 --> 00:04:49.240 depends on the bandwidth your connection is rated for. 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:54.680 So then, how's Cloudflare doing this? Well, many factors affect the speed of a DNS query, 00:04:54.680 --> 00:05:00.860 but the biggest one is whether the server can retrieve the answer from a cache. If the 00:05:00.860 --> 00:05:04.940 domain IP address pair is already stored in your browser, you can't retrieve it. You'd 00:05:04.940 --> 00:05:04.980 have to do it manually. If it was a cache, you'd have to do it manually. If it was a 00:05:04.980 --> 00:05:05.020 cache, you'd have to do it manually. If it was a cache, you'd have to do it manually. If 00:05:05.020 --> 00:05:12.160 operating system, or DNS server, then your DNS resolver doesn't have to balance between multiple 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:17.880 routes and registrars around the world in order to solve the query. So with OneDot, Cloudflare 00:05:17.880 --> 00:05:24.220 pre-fills their distributed cache out of band with popular addresses that you are likely to query. 00:05:24.620 --> 00:05:28.500 And they're also working to build out their network with the eventual goal of having 00:05:28.500 --> 00:05:35.000 every user within 10 milliseconds of at least one of their locations. In March alone, 00:05:35.060 --> 00:05:41.220 they enabled 31 new data centers all over the world, and they use fancy query techniques like 00:05:41.220 --> 00:05:48.850 aggressive negative caching to decrease the load on their system. So okay, good for them, but what 00:05:48.850 --> 00:05:54.290 if OneDot isn't faster than what you're already using? Is there any point switching to it? Believe 00:05:54.290 --> 00:05:59.470 it or not, yes, because there are privacy advantages as well. Even if you're visiting an 00:05:59.470 --> 00:06:05.210 HTTPS website, one that supports encrypted data transfer, the fact that you searched for 00:06:05.210 --> 00:06:05.290 that data transfer and then you're able to access it, that's a huge advantage. 00:06:05.290 --> 00:06:09.730 The fact that you're able to access that site in the first place is still known by your DNS resolver. 00:06:10.090 --> 00:06:17.270 This means that by default, your ISP, your mobile network provider, and every Wi-Fi network you've 00:06:17.270 --> 00:06:24.090 ever connected to have a comprehensive list of every site you visited while you're using them. 00:06:25.210 --> 00:06:31.270 While OneDot does actually need to log your IP address to prevent abuse and to debug issues, 00:06:31.410 --> 00:06:35.590 Cloudflare has committed with third-party auditing firm KPMG on retainer, 00:06:35.610 --> 00:06:42.730 to wiping all of their logs within 24 hours and never writing your IP address to a disk. So they 00:06:42.730 --> 00:06:48.550 actually won't know who searched for what sites. They use query minimization to ensure that they 00:06:48.550 --> 00:06:54.330 only reveal the specific data necessary to complete the query, and they support up-and-coming privacy 00:06:54.330 --> 00:07:01.190 standards like DNS over TLS and DNS over HTTPS. And while you might think that privacy isn't that 00:07:01.190 --> 00:07:05.490 important, consider that in 2014, the government of Turkey ordered the country's ISP to be 00:07:05.490 --> 00:07:11.990 censored Twitter by blocking DNS requests after a government corruption scandal leaked online. 00:07:12.510 --> 00:07:14.110 So in response, 00:07:14.110 --> 00:07:21.410 protesters actually spray-painted the IP of Google's DNS resolver all over Istanbul to help their fellow Turks get back online. 00:07:22.230 --> 00:07:29.230 So this video, sorry, it was kind of heavy, but thank you for making this far. 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