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Re: Ping speed - Pi Hole DNS vs NextDNS @Ell War Hey, Until today, I hadn't used the DNSBench in a very long time. I decided to check results from my location (Reno, NV, USA). First, I'm running on MacOS (Catalina).…
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Re: Ping speed - Pi Hole DNS vs NextDNS Do you have ultra low latency enabled? did you use their test https://ping.nextdns.io/ It might be worth comparing ultra low vs anycast. I’m not sure where the nearest servers are for London.…
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Re: Ping speed - Pi Hole DNS vs NextDNS Where are you located? Also, do you notice it being slower in real world use?
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Re: Ping speed - Pi Hole DNS vs NextDNS @Ell War Sorry, I haven't tried using a VPN with NextDNS, but there are several posts in the community area from others. BTW, ping tests are only showing network latency.…
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Re: Ping speed - Pi Hole DNS vs NextDNS @Ell War not so much “riling”. This would be a great opportunity to learn what dns does and doesn’t do. Your ping packets don’t touch the dns resolver (unless your actually pinging the resolver…
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Re: Ping speed - Pi Hole DNS vs NextDNS @DynamicNotSlow fair enough. I’ll rephrase. The lack of understanding of dns and basic networking principles when it comes to troubleshooting problems saddens me.…
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Re: Ping speed - Pi Hole DNS vs NextDNS @losnad I’m even more amazed at the lack of understanding of basic network principles. People are blindly using NextDNS who clearly don’t know anything about dns.
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Re: Ping speed - Pi Hole DNS vs NextDNS Ping packets (icmp packets) to google don’t go through your dns resolver. I don’t think you understand how it all works
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Re: Host Override for Local Web Server @Luigi calamar it’s under the settings tab in my.nextdns.io . It’s at the bottom.
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Re: Host Override for Local Web Server Use the existing Rewrites feature?
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Re: Add "I DON'T CARE ABOUT COOKIES" List to privacy A better suggestion would be an explanation of what DNS can and can’t do. Seems like too many people don’t understand what DNS does
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Re: edge.activity.windows.com blocked @DynamicNotSlow I use that and a bunch of others. I’m ok with false positives and I just do a quick disable when needed. I really wish NextDNS would implement a temporary disable switch (30 seconds…
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Re: edge.activity.windows.com blocked @Tabodo fair enough. Many people, especially end users, often to get mired down trying to concoct the perfect system. Prior to retirement, I was in charge of a the network for a small municipality…
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Re: edge.activity.windows.com blocked @Tabodo there’s always going to be false positives. You reported it, which is about all you can do (and more than many would do). Add it to your allow list and move on.
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Re: Hospital WLAN blocks access to internet because of NextDNS @Ian Morris I’m curious how you can block all known DOH servers? Is someone maintaining a central list, or you just blocking the well known ones?
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Re: What is going on with NextDNS? I think it’s pretty awesome as-is. Sure, it could use some tweaks. Once I settled on some of the built in blocklists and added a few entries to my allow list, it’s working great for me.…
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Re: Windows 10 nextdns not connected The information I posted above was for older versions of Windows and out of date. The correct information is here:…
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Re: Temporary additions to allowlist I’ve asked for this or the ability to temporarily deactivate nextdns. Neither seem to be getting any traction. for now. I go through the hassle of manually deactivating then reactivating.…
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Re: Windows 10 nextdns not connected Windows periodically tries to connect to www.msftncsi.com and read a file called ncis.txt If the file can't be ready Windows thinks it's disconnected. Check logs for www.msftncsi.com .…
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Re: Windows Manual (CLI) Install Use quotations because of the space
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Re: macOS Client - Apple Silicon Support? The CLI works with Rosetta https://help.nextdns.io/t/60hllxa/nextdns-cli-install-issue Possibly native by now, but I’m not sure
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Re: Amazon and PayPal App won't work properly on Android Logs are your friend
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Re: Duckduckgo DNS_PROBE_POSSIBLE Error What do you see in the logs?
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Re: google-analytics.com still blocked after added to allowlist @Ricardo M It happens:) I've made far worse mistakes
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Re: google-analytics.com still blocked after added to allowlist Logs are your friend
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