DNS servers that offer privacy and filtering

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Post by petercooper » Wed, Feb 06, 2019, 11:21 AM UTC

DNS servers that offer privacy and filtering
danielmiessler.com

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#2

Post by krylon » Wed, Feb 06, 2019, 12:20 PM UTC

I know this is not for everyone, but I strongly prefer to run my own recursive resolver at home. Performance is great, plus I get regular DNS for the machines on my home network. Also, it was a fun little project. :)

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Post by dbg31415 » Wed, Feb 06, 2019, 12:23 PM UTC

krylon wrote: post #2

I know this is not for everyone, but I strongly prefer to run my own recursive resolver at home. Performance is great, plus I get regular DNS for the machines on my home network. Also, it was a fun little project. :)

I love my Pi Hole! Great for blocking ads on everything.

* Pi-hole®: A black hole for Internet advertisements – curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash || https://pi-hole.net/

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Post by dspillett » Wed, Feb 06, 2019, 12:24 PM UTC

krylon wrote: post #2

I know this is not for everyone, but I strongly prefer to run my own recursive resolver at home. Performance is great, plus I get regular DNS for the machines on my home network. Also, it was a fun little project. :)

That and handy for network level filtering, such as PiHole.

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Post by sascha_sl » Wed, Feb 06, 2019, 12:27 PM UTC

krylon wrote: post #2

I know this is not for everyone, but I strongly prefer to run my own recursive resolver at home. Performance is great, plus I get regular DNS for the machines on my home network. Also, it was a fun little project. :)

I really like the flexibility of CoreDNS for that. I use Cloudflare with dnscrypt as my resolver and still get to use intranet things at work because I can just forward the zones I need there elsewhere.

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Post by tw1010 » Wed, Feb 06, 2019, 12:28 PM UTC

Do I have to?

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Post by palijer » Wed, Feb 06, 2019, 12:29 PM UTC

DNS servers should not be used as "internet connectivity tests" by pinging them. They are not maintained as ICMP test servers, and that is not their purpose. While many do not block ICMP packets, there are typically rate limiting systems in place, and other reasons why they would not respond to ping requests.

Pinging DNS servers is a shitty inconclusive test for internet connectivity, or SLA measurements etc etc.

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Post by skrause » Wed, Feb 06, 2019, 12:29 PM UTC

krylon wrote: post #2

I know this is not for everyone, but I strongly prefer to run my own recursive resolver at home. Performance is great, plus I get regular DNS for the machines on my home network. Also, it was a fun little project. :)

I like to share the cache of the DNS resolver with as many people as possible because that's what gives you the best performance. A local resolver just for me can't really do that.

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Post by skrause » Wed, Feb 06, 2019, 12:30 PM UTC

The best tip is in the sidebar on that page:

> 1.0.0.1 abbreviates to 1.1, so you can literally test by typing "ping 1.1"

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#10

Post by sangaya » Wed, Feb 06, 2019, 12:31 PM UTC

https://pi-hole.net/ is a project to consider for home and small business networks that you're looking to protect via DNS without sending all your requests to a third party.