Nice thing about this is that you can see both the public IP address and the DNS server IP address(es) right next to each other. It reports the IP Address, ISP, city and country of the detected DNS servers. At /ip you may need to scroll down to see a gray 'Run DNS Leak Test' button.The initial screen shows your public IP address and location. Both report the IP address, Hostname, ISP, City and Country for each detected DNS server. It offers a quick standard test and a slower extended test. DNS Leak Test is sponsored by VPN provider IVPN.

Android will always use the Private DNS servers, even when a VPN is active. NOTE: If you are using the Private DNS feature of Android (first introduced in version 9) there is no need for any of the testers below. I have a list of suggested DNS providers. For more on encrypted DNS see the Encrypted DNS topic on my Defensive Computing Checklist site. Likewise, if you have two web browsers using different DNS providers, expect them to report different results in the tests below. If one browser is using encrypted DNS while another, on the same computing device, is not, then expect these tests to show different results in each browser. The most recent change is that web browsers can now specify their desired DNS server. We need tests like these because there are many places that DNS servers could have come from. That is, they report the DNS servers your current browser is actually using. You can check a computer or router to see what your DNS servers should be, but the pages below show what they actually are (with the tested web browser). Like food, you should not take DNS servers from a stranger. For example, they might send you to a scam copy of a website. Malicious DNS servers can do what any malicious translator can do - lie to you. Probably 99% of all communication between two computers on the Internet, starts with a call to a DNS Server to translate a computer name into an IP address. The system that translates names into the underlying numeric IP addresses is called DNS (Domain Name System) and the computers that do the translation are referred to as DNS servers.ĭNS Servers are extremely important. All communication on the Internet is based on these unique numbers, website names and computer names are just a convenience. You know this site as and its IP address is 216.92.136.14. Short Introduction to DNS (switch to a Long DNS explanation)ĭevices connected to the Internet are assigned unique numbers called IP addresses.

Google dns benchmark utility