I came across this article, Best free and public DNS servers of 2018, and found Cloudflare [1.1.1.1] has fewer hops after Riverside Gateway than Google, and Google Public DNS [8.8.8.8] has two additional hops. These tracerts illustrate these are direct outgoing requests from Riverside, CA...not being routed to Denver. Cloudflare does not monitor your activity, like Google does.
Norton ConnectSafe DNS goes to Dallas, Texas and takes some 40ms extra time.
As noted,
The Security policy blocks malicious and fraudulent websites only, and uses the nameservers 199.85.126.10 and 199.85.127.10.
The Security and Pornography policy adds support for filtering sexually explicit material, and uses the nameservers 199.85.126.20 and 199.85.127.20.
5 636 ms 638 ms 639 ms 206.53.175.20 6 642 ms 639 ms 639 ms one.one.one.one [1.1.1.1] 5 663 ms 639 ms 639 ms 206.53.175.23 6 664 ms 639 ms 639 ms 108.170.252.193 7 638 ms 640 ms 637 ms 108.170.231.99 8 646 ms 640 ms 637 ms google-public-dns-a.google.com [8.8.8.8]
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