
Connecting to fastest server
I'm running NextDNS on pfsense via CLI, but for some reason, it never wants to connect to the fastest servers however many times I try.
I've tried rebooting pfsense and restarting the service, but it always connects to annexia-man when others are consistently faster.
https://nextdns.io/diag/fb76b700-7d5b-11ec-a639-ab002b683e5c
Is there a way to force / steer it to connect to others? Or what is the logic that's used to connect to the server it connects to?
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I noticed this too on my pfsense box (not sure it's related to pfsense).
The (really dirty / hacky) way i got round it was create a floating rule to block traffic to the IPs of the anexia-man server, which now sends me over to zept-lon which is consistently lower on latency as well as a few less hops.
The issue you might run into is private DNS on android wont work, however i got round this by only blocking traffic from the pfsense box (where i run the cli proxy) which allows other devices to contact whatever server they want (which tend to be london anyway!)