The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer

[em-bee]

related: dns4eu https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44255116

[tomhow]

Thanks! Full details of this and others:

How much EU is in DNS4EU? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44255116 - June 2025 (108 comments)

DNS4EU, an EU-based DNS resolution service - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44254610 - June 2025 (50 comments)

DNS4EU for Public Is Available - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44190071 - June 2025 (78 comments)

[aleph_minus_one]

Does this DNS server block (censor) the domains of the CUII list as many German internet providers do?

> https://cuiiliste.de/domains

> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearingstelle_Urheberrecht_im...

(both are German websites, but they should be easily understandable for everybody)

[9dev]

I love that list. It’s like a convenient lookup directory when you need to pirate or stream something, freely accessible, sponsored for by the government and the entertainment industry!

[mrtksn]

NO censorship as far as I can tell, all websites I tried worked. Beyond that, Russian websites are also fine.

Also, I don't expect to have EU wide bans anytime soon because each country is into doing its thing in this regard. When Germany, Italy etc. are going trigger happy for piracy Eastern EU and the Nordics used to be or maybe continue to be the providers of that.

[lode]

Doesn't look like it, picking a random domain from this list gives the same result as from 1.1.1.1:

  dig bs.to @1.1.1.1
  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  bs.to.   164 IN A 190.115.31.20


  dig bs.to @193.110.81.0
  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  bs.to.   300 IN A 190.115.31.20

[rdsubhas]

Their network map promiscuously shows ZERO servers in Germany. They have in every other major EU country. I guess they have it this way to not follow this.

[nucleardog]

CIRA in Canada also provides a public DNS server. (CIRA is the non-profit administrator of the .ca TLD.)

They provide variants for unfiltered DNS, blocking malware/phishing, and malware/phishing + pornography.

All variants are provided over IPv4, IPv6, DoH, and DoT.

https://www.cira.ca/en/canadian-shield/configure/summary-cir...

[yegor]

Try this instead, also based in Canada: https://controld.com/free-dns (self-promotion)

[torgeros]

They have not posted anything on social media in a long time and there was some downtime a few months ago. I would really like to use this primarily, but it is really a problem when your DNS suddenly becomes unavailable without any note from the devs ^^

[jaoane]

That’s why your computer allows you to set two DNS servers.

[jauco]

Some context that might be overlooked by the non-eu visitors: the eu is passing a bunch of laws that forces/requires larger corporations and so called “critical entities” to invest in resilience. Amongst which of course also cyber resilience. This is a broad area, from security hardening to cataclysm preparation. The relevant eu guidelines are NIS2 and CER.

The laws don’t tell the entities what they should prepare for. Rather, they state that the entities must execute a proper risk assessment and prepare accordingly (obviously this is the rough summary. The actual legislations are a bit better worded than a 9pm forum post)

And given what’s going on in the world + the phrasing of the legislations, using eu based services is becoming a lot more attractive to these companies.

Which means that being a eu based company whose offer is “whatever US company X does, but a bit less mature atm, we’re working on it!” has gone from a pointless strategy to one that might just work.

Edit: BTW that last paragraph is not meant to imply that dns0 isn’t mature. I don’t know them. Just wanted to put in words the general vibe I’m picking up.

[blurrybird]

This is made and maintained by the same guy who made NextDNS, a Netflix CDN expert.

They know how to make low latency distributed network applications, but it isn't their day job and the pace of development of both Next and this shows it.

[nyarlathotep_]

I've been paying for NextDNS for at least 4 years now and use their DoH clients on mobile, and its the upstream for AdGuard at home + cloudflared for laptops on the go. It's a great service.

[Eduard]

> A fast, distributed and resilient DNS infrastructure that's 100% European.

> dns0.eu is a French non‑profit organization founded in 2022 by Romain Cointepas and Olivier Poitrey — co-founders of NextDNS.

-> https://help.nextdns.io/t/y4hmv0n/who-is-behind-nextdns

> Who is behind NextDNS?

> NextDNS was founded in May 2019 in Delaware, USA by two French founders Romain Cointepas and Olivier Poitrey. Olivier has been working on Internet infrastructures for the last 20 years. In 2005, he founded Dailymotion, the largest video sharing service after Youtube and the most popular European website in the world at the time. He is currently Director of Engineering at Netflix, working on Open Connect, Netflix's home CDN also known as the CDN moving about 30% of the total US Internet traffic. Romain and Olivier closely worked for years at Dailymotion on many different projects. Romain ended up leading the mobile & TV department.

Brain gymnastics at work.

[martin_a]

Similar to the service that has been up here a few times in the last days: https://www.joindns4.eu/

[Xelbair]

The only way my internet can be safer if i get a DNS that's fully outside of any government control(including soft power over private providers).

[rikafurude21]

Doesnt seem to be directly related to the EU, but something I would consider if I had kids with personal devices.

[ck2]

how about quad9, what are the feelings on them now?

on paper it looks great

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quad9

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43469457

[rdsubhas]

Living in Germany, one of the things about DNS-level adblocking is: It SILENTLY obstructs a lot of the payback, reward and coupon programs.

For example, the biggest country-wide payback program is payback.de, and their most of their coupon multiplier links here – https://www.payback.de/coupons/info – will be clickable, but silently not work after you purchase.

Adblocking is good, but I prefer when it's controlled and I can just open an incognito window or disable it temporarily when I need them, for whatever reason.

[Eduard]

> For example, the biggest country-wide payback program is payback.de, and their most of their coupon multiplier links here – https://www.payback.de/coupons/info – will be clickable, but silently not work after you purchase.

I don't understand this claim. Payback coupons have to be activated before purchase, so even if somehow that link wouldn't work anymore after a purchase it'd be too late anyway to have the coupon applied.

Can you elaborate or provide links for more information?

[cyberbolt23]

Then use a browser adblocker that you can disable when needed.

[mtremsal]

This is neat. I wonder what the delta is between this and NextDNS (who funds/powers the non-profit). I imagine NextDNS blocks a superset of the baseline of dangerous domains blocked by dns0.eu? Is the main addition primarily advertising and analytics related?

edit: another key addition by NextDNS is a global infra footprint, rather than just in the EU. Oh it looks like there’s no anycast with the non-profit as well? And you have to pick your local resolver. I guess that makes sense because the main value prop of NextDNS (to me) is when I’m traveling and a local pi-hole won’t suffice.

[jamiedumont]

I thought the two sounded similar, then I saw at the bottom they both have come from the same two founders. Nice to have a straightforward alternative to NextDNS to recommend to relatives.

[miroljub]

Makes the internet safer? That usually means censorship.

No, thanks. I don't want a "safe" DNS, I want one that always returns the IP of the host, no matter the actual safety/censorship policies of the day.

[john-h-k]

If you read the link, it seems to be about avoiding phishing and malicious links, and nothing to do with banning piracy/etc sites

[VWWHFSfQ]

I like DNS that blocks known trackers and ads. To me that means my internet is safer.

[smartmic]

Unfortunately, the setup instructions for "Linux" on the homepage only consider "systemd." Of course, every GNU/Linux user — or rather, administrator — who doesn't use systemd knows how to set it up the "old" UNIX way. However, assuming that Linux equals systemd is kind of offensive to a small group of systemd avoiders (such as myself).

[9dev]

Unfortunately, the road signs for "vehicles" on the streets only consider "motor vehicles". Of course, every vehicle operator — or rather, rider — who doesn’t drive a car knows how to travel them on horse carriages. However assuming that vehicles equal cars is kind of offensive to a small group of motor avoiders (such as myself).

[throwaway5833]

After about a decade Linux on desktop is semi stable and semi secure thanks to Wayland and Systemd.

You can stick to fiddling your way with sysv and x11 if you like. The world has moved on.

[JodieBenitez]

"Nous distribuons notre infrastructure sur plusieurs hébergeurs dans chaque État membre de l'Union européenne. Notre pile logicielle sur mesure a été testée au combat pendant plus de 3 ans, répondant à des billions de requêtes et servant des centaines de milliers d'utilisateurs chez NextDNS."

Claims it's 100% european, can't even have proper french. :-/

[VWWHFSfQ]

Clearly a translation from English. Which is funny since there are no native English-speaking languages in the EU anymore (Ireland's first official language is not English).

But also, it's amazing that the EU can function at all with the amount of criticism it gets if every single little communication is not perfectly tuned for every potential European reader. :-/

[yencabulator]

I'm 100% european and can't speak french. Seems perfectly plausible.

(It's very French of you to complain about it, though.)

[makeitdouble]

I'm not sure where you see the bad french.

It's not traditional idiomatic, but we're also in 2025 and most people won't even understand the old idioms.

[reify]

I have just put the DNS server 193.110.81.0 into the network manager on a manjaro machine and an MX-linux machine and the DNS works perfectly.

Added it to Librewolf and it works fine,

Just put the kids.dns0.eu on my grandkids phone and again it works perfectly.

I have of course already done this in the past with the Mullvad DNS with the family filter:

I would rather use an EU DNS server than any US shite.

dnsleaktest; on the Mx-linux machine

IP: 217.156.17.129 M247 Europe Brussels, Belgium

I do hope that the EU can slowly disconnnect from all USA services and have our own.

https://nlnet.nl/project/current.html

https://european-alternatives.eu/

You cannot have someone like TRump instruct/pressure/force microsoft to delete emails and accounts of the International war crimes investigators, who were investigating Israel for war crimes.

[jedisct1]

No DNS stamps to use this?

[ape4]

Would there be latency for people far away from Europe?

[weberer]

Open a terminal and type "ping dns0.eu" The number in the last column is your latency in milliseconds.

[mrtksn]

probably. All their servers appear to be in EU.

[longstation]

Would be great if it has the option to block ads.

[cwassert]

Mullvad offers such a service for free. https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

[mtmail]

https://www.joindns4.eu/for-public has an endpoint that includes blocking ads.

[hans_castorp]

You can use https://dnsforge.de/ (Sorry, page is in German)

[jorge-d]

I've been using nextdns.io (which seem to have founded this initiative) for a few years and it works pretty well for that

[wsintra2022]

Try it with a pihole

[apples_oranges]

not answering certain DNS queries would be something! lol