Security News > 2021 > May > How to enable secure DNS on your Chromebook

You've probably connected that laptop to coffee shop networks, where there's either no password, an easy password or zero guarantees of the level of security applied to the Wi-Fi. What do you do? One thing you most certainly should do is configure both Chrome OS and Chrome to use secure DNS. By doing this, all of your DNS queries are encrypted, so you don't have to worry so much that some ne'er-do-well is listening in on the packets you send out.

The first thing we'll do is enable Secure DNS in Chrome, which uses DNS-over-HTTPS to encrypt all DNS traffic.

To do this, open Chrome on your Chromebook and type chrome://settings/security in the address bar.

How to change DNS providers in Chrome OS. Although Chrome OS doesn't include a setting for global DNS-over-HTTPS, we can at least change the DNS settings for individual networks, such that they use the same DNS as Chrome.

Although most of what you do on your Chromebook will be handled via Chrome, there are instances where you might have installed a Linux app or some other tool that doesn't go through Chrome.

You now have a setup where both Chrome and Chrome OS are using the same encrypted DNS servers.

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