Using DNS4EU in North America
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130ms is perceivable but still quite small, and you’d only hit it once per domain (per TTL). If you care enough to intentionally use it then I wouldn’t worry about it. You’ll rarely notice the difference.
There are a few other services with similar ethos that you may want to check out as alternatives. Quad9 is the one I remember off the top of my head.
I was using Quad9 for quite some time, but I had consistent problems with the DNS sometimes not working.
In my local network I switched to pihole with unbound as the resolver. Though this does require a bit more setup.
I have unbound setup to serve expired records from the cache & prefetch comment queries, this helps with most of the delay.On my phone I use dnsforge.de when I am not at home for example, and haven't had any problems with unresponsive DNS so far.
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Question for the general public. Why not use the DNS server provided by your ISP?
They already know what websites you visit, because TLS1.2 still leaks the hostname. They might as well provide some useful service in return.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Not if you use a vpn. Being that this is Selfhosted, the best idea is to just host your own Recursive DNS server.
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Well, this is selfhost, so why not do that and set up unbound to use?
Is unbound different than say dnsmasq that my router is running? Isn't it just another DNS server that has to go to a higher DNS server for resolution?
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Question for the general public. Why not use the DNS server provided by your ISP?
They already know what websites you visit, because TLS1.2 still leaks the hostname. They might as well provide some useful service in return.
Because they are court ordered to block some websites that I like to use.
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Is unbound different than say dnsmasq that my router is running? Isn't it just another DNS server that has to go to a higher DNS server for resolution?
Dnsmasq is dependent on whatever DNS servers you provide it with for its data, so if those controlling those DNS servers get ordered to block something you experience that.
Unbound however does the same job as the DNS servers you would configure in Dnsmasq : when you do a DNS request, unbound goes to the root hint servers, then works its way down through the authorative DNS servers til it finds what you are requesting.
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Hey gang, I'm considering using DNS4EU in Canada. My ping to their servers is ~130ms. That's way longer than anything local which is on the order of 1-5ms. Apart from resolving uncached entries taking longer, is there any contraindication to using a DNS server with high latency?
If you’re using a government run DNS, why not use the CIRA ones instead?
https://www.cira.ca/en/canadian-shield/ -
If you’re using a government run DNS, why not use the CIRA ones instead?
https://www.cira.ca/en/canadian-shield/wrote last edited by [email protected]I'm currently trying that but the proposed information sharing changes with the US in Bill
C-5C-2 change the calculus. I'm sure part of the push comes from the American copyright lobby. -
I'm currently trying that but the proposed information sharing changes with the US in Bill
C-5C-2 change the calculus. I'm sure part of the push comes from the American copyright lobby.Fellow Canadian here, this has completely been off my radar. A quick search brings for Bill C-5 brings up the removal of trade barriers and tax cuts.
Can you point me to where the copyright nonsense is in the bill?
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Fellow Canadian here, this has completely been off my radar. A quick search brings for Bill C-5 brings up the removal of trade barriers and tax cuts.
Can you point me to where the copyright nonsense is in the bill?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Sorry, C-2.
It's got some Patriot Act-y stuff in it. Look up coverage on it. -
Hey gang, I'm considering using DNS4EU in Canada. My ping to their servers is ~130ms. That's way longer than anything local which is on the order of 1-5ms. Apart from resolving uncached entries taking longer, is there any contraindication to using a DNS server with high latency?
Does DNS ping really matter unless you're making a lot of random uncached requests?
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Does DNS ping really matter unless you're making a lot of random uncached requests?
Probably not.
