Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and Pi-Hole

Re:Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and... by miki725 on Saturday May 25, 2019 @10:54PM (#20012827)

Personally I run either pihole or something similar however setting something similar for all the friends is a bit cumbersome as it at least requires getting a raspberry pi. This seems like a really intriguing alternative although will voice similar concerns as others are expressing that the site does not indicate the source of the funding, motivations for the project, etc. As such that could be a barrier to entrust something as personal as DNS to a service without understanding their motivations and future plans. Would be great if that could be better outlined on the site.

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Re:Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and... by nextdns on Saturday May 25, 2019 @11:24PM (#20012892)

Motivations: like most tech startups, scratching your own itch :)

Funding: Free during beta, then freemium with low pricing tiers (something like free up to 500,000 DNS queries a month, then $0.99/month). We will tweak later based on actual costs at scale, but it will follow this logic.

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Re:Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and... by Zhenya on Sunday May 26, 2019 @12:13PM (#20015646)

You should add some kind of rogue device/app guarantee+ notification. If something starts to drill a server, it could spike the users costs without their knowledge. That means every device and app is a liability for the user.

Something to ponder.

I know my Nvidia shield DRILLS Netflix even when it's a asleep.

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Re:Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and... by underwater on Saturday May 25, 2019 @11:47PM (#20012968)

I wouldn't know if 500k is a little or a lot.

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Re:Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and... by batrat on Sunday May 26, 2019 @12:19PM (#20015670)

Here is my usage on my PI. 2 people around 5 devices.

https://imgur.com/a/jf2Zqgy

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Re:Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and... by Sebguer on Sunday May 26, 2019 @02:12AM (#20013408)

Seems like it's close to what a 'normal' household would consume: https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/2201126...

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Re:Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and... by jamesog on Sunday May 26, 2019 @04:45AM (#20013864)

According to my nextdns analytics from the last few weeks my house has peaked at around 28,000 queries a day, 331k so far this month.

Nextdns is blocking somewhere in the region of 400-600 queries each day, mostly things like Google Analytics, Apple iAd.

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Re:Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and... by PappaPatat on Sunday May 26, 2019 @06:54AM (#20014269)

5 people household here with 15 devices (iPhones, iPads, PS4, Raspis & Chromecasts) DNS via PiHole:

138,473 queries over the last 30 days

31,928 queries blocked (23%)

Hope this helps.

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Re:Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and... by quaffapint on Sunday May 26, 2019 @09:39AM (#20014858)

Also 5 person house with 60K queries in the last 24 hours with 39K blocked - that's 60+% blocked. All pretty much thanks to all the logging that Roku does that PiHole blocks.

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