NextDNS doesn’t support unlimited DNS query for free, I think.
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sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Why would someone pick PiHole over say a customized NextDNS on your router?
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Morphit@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Ah, I saw another comment about this. The free plan is 300,000 queries a month. That’d last me almost a week before it stops working.
sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 3 months ago
That’s a good point
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Little of column A little of column B.
I use pihole on the LAN, then upstream is cloudflared translating DNS to DOH using NextDNS as the primary and Quad9 as the fallback.
Looking at the last 24hrs; the whole network has made 91k DNS requests, 14.5% of that being passed to the upstream (the rest is locally cached responses or blocked) so ~12.7k served by NextDNS. When/if that 300k limit is reached, cloudflared will just fallback to Quad9.
With this I get the blocking from NextDNS as well as whatever additional lists I want to use; plus pihole serves local only records for self-hosted services and fixed names for LAN devices (I find standard broadcasted hostnames unreliable at best).
sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Thank you. That’s incredibly insightful. When I get the cash I’ll setup a PiHole