Cloudflare launches DNS app for Android and iOS

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Cloudflare launched the DNS resolver 1.1.1.1 in April of 2018 promising better privacy and security compared to DNS services offered by Internet Service Providers and companies that offer third-party DNS resolvers.

DNS plays an important role on the Internet as it translates host names to IP addresses; when a user points a browser to a site like https://www.ghacks.net/, DNS looks up the IP address of the site so that connections can be established to a server it is hosted on.

Early benchmarks confirmed Cloudflare's claim about the speed of the company's DNS resolver. The company added features such as DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS to improve user privacy.

Setup of Cloudflare as the primary DNS server is easy enough on desktop systems; mobile setup is a bit more complicated as the option to do so are quite hidden both on Android and on iOS.

Cloudflare launched applications for Android and iOS to enable the company's 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver on mobile devices automatically. The main benefit for users is that they don't have to make configuration changes manually to change the DNS resolver.

Full reading: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/11/12/cloudf...d-and-ios/