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New to NextDNS - 3 Questions before I buy

Hello,

I have been using nextdns in November and have recently gone over my 300k quota for this month, for which I am told that nextDNS is now acting like a normal public DNS server and all features are disabled.  This does not seem to be the case, logging and blocking is still taking place - what is actually disabled?

 

Secondly, what underlying DNS server is NextDNS using, I have heard rumours it is 1.1.1.1 but are you able to let me know?  How does it fair in comparison to OpenDNS which I have been a paid member of for 15 years.

Thirdly, a lot of discussions are around people checking to see if the server they are using is the closest to their location.  Is this just by using the nextDNS diagnostics tool?

 

Thanks,

Tom

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    • losnad
    • 3 yrs ago
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    1. Look at https://my.nextdns.io/account

    https://help.nextdns.io/t/p8hmvaw/what-happens-after-300k-queries

    https://help.nextdns.io/t/p8hmvax/what-a-and-aaaa-labels-mean-in-the-logs

    3. The closest server isn't necessarily the fastest.

    test.nextdns.io

    ping.nextdns.io

    • Tom_Mitchell
    • 3 yrs ago
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    Thank you.  I am still receiving logging and filtering despite being well beyond my quota, hence asking the question.  Nothing seems to have changed apart from a red banner telling me I have exceeding my quota.   Does anyone know what underlying DNS server is used?

      • Hey
      • 3 yrs ago
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      Tom Mitchell Its a company that provides DNS services, them using some other corporations DNS would be quite shocking. I mean I don't even know where you heard that they use Cloudflares network but that's not even remotely the case.

      They have their own Anycast Network and it's one of the best at that nearly always in the Top 3 rankings by DNS Perf.

      (https://www.dnsperf.com/#!dns-resolvers)

      So to end it off, the Cloudflare thing you heard is missinformation, they have their own network and where I live it's even faster than Cloudflare by 2ms not huge but, the fastest here in Turkey. 

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