Primary and secondary dns is not a thing. There is no priority for DNS. Depending on the device it will use ether address and will only try the other on failure.
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EpicVision@monero.town 11 months ago
Use something like AdGuard or NextDNS as your secondary resolver
lordnikon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
EpicVision@monero.town 11 months ago
Windows calls them ‘preferred’ and ‘alternate’ DNS servers. That roughly translates to primary/secondary.
tuhriel@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Yeah, that’s how they are named, my experience showed that the devices used whichever of the two they wanted.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It does not.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 11 months ago
When it comes to a “secondary”DNS… there is nothing like a primary and secondary DNS server. These indications are quite misleading but many systems adopted it this way. Pihole only list the DNS servers as primary and secondary, because this is what the providers write on their pages. The bad phrasing is supported especially by how Windows handles it.
Most operating systems implement DNS servers as alternatives, not as fallbacks, i.e. they will query any of both servers from time to time, so it is quite likely that you will loose your Pi-hole filtering capabilities (at least partially) [if you specify a secondary DNS server on your network].
The ONLY DNS server you should have set on your network is a/the PiHole(s).
EpicVision@monero.town 11 months ago
Damn, fuck Windows. Fortunately I don’t have to use it.
That’s exactly what I do, since I never had any stability issues with my Pihole.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s not just windows.