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Hurricane Electric DNS

The public resolver of Hurricane Electric, one of the largest backbones in the world and the largest on IPv6. No filtering, DNSSEC, and DoT, DoH, DoQ and DoH3 at ordns.he.net. It publishes no logging policy for this service.

IPv4: 74.82.42.42

IP addresses

IPv4
Primary: 74.82.42.42
IPv6
Primary: 2001:470:20::2

Addresses verified on 2026-09-21 against official documentation

Features

  • Global backbone
  • No filtering
  • DoT, DoH, DoQ and DoH3
  • Excellent on IPv6

Protocols

DNSSEC
DoH
DoT
DoQ
DNSCrypt
IPv6
Operator
Hurricane Electric LLC
Jurisdiction
United States
Logs
Not published
Best for
Neutral resolution from a major backbone
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