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TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

mary DNS Server: Clients will first attempt to use the primary DNS server specified in their network settings. This ser

What’s the point tho? If your PiHole fails you need to know otherwise you could be risking days / months of web surfing in the fallback DNS server without even noticing it.

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Kir@feddit.it ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Thank you, this is what I was worrying about. As for the “why”, even if my server is quite stable, a shutdown may be necessary and sometimes slowdowns with pi-hole happened. Some redundancy would have been better.

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- AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Setup two PiHoles
  
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- TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Well, I’m not sure you read the other comments but there is confirmation that for clients there isn’t an order for DNS servers from RFC2182:
  
  The distinction between primary and secondary servers is relevant only to the servers for the zone concerned, to the rest of the DNS there are simply multiple servers.
  
  All are treated equally at first instance, even by the parent server that delegates the zone. Resolvers often measure the performance of the various servers, choose the “best”, for some definition of best, and prefer that one for most queries.
  
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