How do I change my DNS to 1.1.1.1
in Windows 10. Hi everyone Leo Notenboom
here. Changing your DNS provider on
your computer can sometimes have some
benefits including both speed -- some DNS
providers are better than the ones that
you get by default by connecting to your
ISP's connection -- some provide additional
levels of security & privacy by filtering
some of the sites you can and cannot
connect to. DNS of course is that
function that maps domain names like
askleo.com into the IP addresses that
actually refer to the servers on which
they live out on the Internet. As it
turns out changing the DNS setting in
Windows 10 is, as is so many things,
buried a little but it's not that hard
to find. We'll right-click on the
networking icon. Now, you can see here
mine says "Network 3 internet access" -- you
may have a Wi-Fi connection icon there
as well, I happen to be on cable, my
computer is connected with an Ethernet
cable. We'll open network and Internet
settings, Change adapter options, again on
the connection that you are currently
using for the internet, right click on
that, click on properties, and this brings
up the magic dialog that we really care
about. We start with Internet Protocol
version 4 and click on properties. And
here's the setting. Right now we're set
to "Obtain the DNS server address automatically".
If you want to undo this
change you would return to this dialog
and change this back to "Obtain DNS
server address automatically." We'll set
instead "Use the following DNS server
addresses" it will just change it from
nothing to 1.1.1.1.
Now, they often want an alternate DNS
server if you look at CloudFlare's
documentation -- they're the
that are providing the 1.1.1.1 DNS -- they
suggest an alternate service of 1.0.0.1.
And that's it. All you really
need to do is click OK and the DNS
server for TCP/IP version 4 will have
been updated. Now if you're going to go
through this effort, my recommendation is
that you also do the equivalent change
for TCP/IP v6 and it's very similar:click
on Properties change to "Use the
following DNS server addresses". Now
unfortunately with TCP/IP version 6
they're not as obvious, they're not as
easy to remember, so I'm actually going
to go over here and copy/paste in my
entries from the CloudFlare
documentation. And their alternate which
again looks very similar ... same thing
1 1 1 1 and 1 0 0 1 are the way they end.
But again, now we've got it set for both
TCP/IP version 4 and IP v6. And that's
really all there is to it. If you want to
revert to the previous settings so
you're getting your DNS services from
your provider, just undo that. Make sure
that both of them are set to "Obtain the
IP address automatically from your
provider". 1.1.1.1 is
one example of an alternate DNS provider,
provided by CloudFlare. Google has one at
8.8.8.8
their alternate 8.8.4.4. Another popular
one is OpenDNS; they're the ones that
provide additional filtering. I'll point
you at their site: just Google OpenDNS
for their settings, their DNS server IP
addresses aren't quite as memorable. I'm
Leo Notenboom this is askleo.com,
Thanks for watching!