Quad9 – A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy

Re:Quad9 – A public and free DNS service for a better securi... by bustling-noose on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @08:58AM (#43470642)

The quality of dns always makes or breaks your internet experience. Personally at home unbound on opnsense with some blocking list has always worked really well for me. Openwrt with pihole also works fine. But the moment I have to use some recursive dns like this, I tend to not enjoy the experience.

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Re:Quad9 – A public and free DNS service for a better securi... by udev4096 on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @09:46AM (#43471234)

It really depends. Cloudflare, quad9 or whatever upstream DNS probably has huge cache which makes resolving the queries quite fast. Although, local caching, like with unbound, is still going to be a lot better than any upstream resolver

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Re:Quad9 – A public and free DNS service for a better securi... by SparkyMcUnicorn on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @09:51AM (#43471303)

opnsense + ctrld[0] + unbound works great and automatically upgrades upstream requests to DoH (etc.)

Was using NextDNS for a while, but stability and performance was a common issue. I like the idea of something like pihole, but ControlD is good, works anywhere, and is easy to manage.

[0] https://github.com/Control-D-Inc/ctrld/wiki/pfSense-and-OPNs...

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Re:Quad9 – A public and free DNS service for a better securi... by eudhxhdhsb32 on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @09:36AM (#43471120)

Are you just referring to ads not being blocked?

A regular dns like quad9 + ublock origin on Firefox has been a consistently great experience for me.

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Re:Quad9 – A public and free DNS service for a better securi... by bayindirh on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @09:47AM (#43471249)

Probably the responsiveness of things. Firefox is very sensitive to DNS roundtrip time during daily use. A faster response time provides much better experience with it.

I guess that ~25% of "Firefox is slow" myth is coming from slow DNS response, if not higher.

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Re:Quad9 – A public and free DNS service for a better securi... by eudhxhdhsb32 on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @10:00AM (#43471421)

That makes sense. Do you know the reason for Firefox being more sensitive? Is their DNS prefetching not as effective?

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Re:Quad9 – A public and free DNS service for a better securi... by bayindirh on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @10:07AM (#43471522)

I honestly have no idea. I observe it all the time, and note repeatedly everywhere when the discussion comes up, but never had the time to dig into the code and see how that all works.

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Re:Quad9 – A public and free DNS service for a better securi... by buyucu on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @01:47PM (#43473960)

does PiHole cache dns queries and deliver them faster?

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Re:Quad9 – A public and free DNS service for a better securi... by woleium on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @01:51PM (#43473991)

yes it caches, but it may not deliver them faster, depending on how good your previous dns service was and how good your hardware is.

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Re:Quad9 – A public and free DNS service for a better securi... by buyucu on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @03:12PM (#43474727)

just checked my pihole logs and almost all entries are answered by local cache. this is great.

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