I have been using NextDNS over the past two years, and am generally happy with their service. However, I’ve never compared their quality against the other recommended ones (like Control D, Quad 9, Mullvad, etc) particularly in terms of ping. I’m based in Australia. Any fellow Aussies using any of these services and care to share their experience, and potentially a recommended service?

My NextDNS renewal date is coming up and I’d like to know whether to stay or try other services.

  • Vexz@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I doubt you’ll notice a difference with a different DNS provider. There are 5 of NextDNS’s DNS servers in Australia. As long as you use anycast you should always have good speeds and reliability.

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        1 year ago

        Yes. Your DNS queries will be sent to a group of DNS servers instead of just one and they all can respond. This helps lowering the latency and improves the reliability since not just one DNS server can respond to your DNS queries. The installation page of NextDNS uses the anycast IP addressess.

  • railsdev@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Not really addressing the core issue but here’s some unsolicited advice: run some type of resolver locally that caches; specifically something that’ll cache all the NXDOMAIN and/or 0.0.0.0 you’ll get back. It’ll really speed things up especially if you can add in some prefetching. I do this with unbound.

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    1 year ago

    How about using dnscrypt-proxy?

    You got randomized dns servers and you can use your own blocklists