Google offers recent versions of Android support for DNS via http / 3 on “servers that support it”. DoH3 is now a standard part of Android 11 and higher.

At first it looked like Android 13 Sweetened Support for the latest DNS-over-https standards, but that wasn’t forthcoming. Instead, Google has now released an update to the DNS Resolver module, a mandatory Android module that applies to all devices running Android 11 and above. Some Android 10 smartphones also use this module, Espress writes Mishaal Rahman.

Users can set Internet settings for compatible Android devices under “Private DNS” to visit DNS-enabled websites via https / 3. Google mentions in the accompanying blog post Two notable DNS servers that are supported by default. This is the Cloudflares resolver and Google’s public DNS service.

Android supports private DNS connections since the ninth major version of the operating system. Initially, this worked mainly via dns-over-tls, but in recent years, dns-over-https has been gaining in popularity. Dns-over-https/3 as the name suggests connects to the http/3 standard. Supports QUIC, which supports multiple UDP streams. So DNS-over-https/3 should provide faster connections, according to Google, although the company doesn’t specify how much profit is involved.

In recent years, most DNS resolvers offer an encrypted version of DNS queries. This means that the provider or network interceptor has no insight into the DNS requests made by the user. Not everyone is happy with that; Critics fear that users are moving their DNS traffic from ISPs to commercial companies like Google or Cloudflare. Tweakers He wrote a background article in 2019 about the rise and criticism of the DNS over https.