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I'm probably gonna switch my PiHole over from Google DNS. I trust Cloudflare more than Google to uphold my privacy. Not that I trust either very much. Benchmar

by tscs37 9y ago

I'm probably gonna switch my PiHole over from Google DNS. I trust Cloudflare more than Google to uphold my privacy. Not that I trust either very much. Benchmarking Results for the interested: (sorted worst first, P value is bottom-X-percent) 1.1.1.1: P00.5=48.2ms (55.8ms VPN) P50.0=32.8ms (37.0ms VPN) P95.0=29.1ms (33.0ms VPN) P99.5=29.1ms (32.7ms VPN) 8.8.8.8: P00.5=225.4ms (71.5ms VPN) P50.0=48.0ms (53.6ms VPN) P95.0=44.1ms (51.3ms VPN) P99.5=43.8ms (50.7ms VPN) I've noticed I measured with my VPN on, so I put the VPN measurements in brackets behind the nominal values. The 8.8.8.8 benchmark is a bit odd but I repeated it several times with 100 iterations each and this is basically what I get.

Faaak 9y ago
Why isn't your pihole a stand-alone DNS resolver instead on relying on 3rd-party services ?
- tscs37 9y ago
  I'm not aware of any pihole native setting to enable a resolver instead of using forwarding. Third-party services like this will also have a huge range of queries cached so the response time will definitely be better than have a rasppi with little free memory try/attempt to cache that.
sgc 9y ago
Where are you located? I am in the rural north Bay Area California and my numbers are shocking: Ping statistics for 1.1.1.1: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 2ms, Average = 1ms Ping statistics for 8.8.8.8: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 25ms, Maximum = 27ms, Average = 26ms Ping statistics for 8.8.4.4: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 26ms, Maximum = 28ms, Average = 27ms
- tscs37 9y ago
  I'm in Southern Germany, my ISP is a bit of a quack when I'm not using their own ad-riddled DNS (I suspect it's intentional)

by tscs37 9y ago

Faaak 9y ago

Why isn't your pihole a stand-alone DNS resolver instead on relying on 3rd-party services ?

tscs37 9y ago
I'm not aware of any pihole native setting to enable a resolver instead of using forwarding. Third-party services like this will also have a huge range of queries cached so the response time will definitely be better than have a rasppi with little free memory try/attempt to cache that.

sgc 9y ago

Where are you located? I am in the rural north Bay Area California and my numbers are shocking: Ping statistics for 1.1.1.1: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 2ms, Average = 1ms Ping statistics for 8.8.8.8: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 25ms, Maximum = 27ms, Average = 26ms Ping statistics for 8.8.4.4: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 26ms, Maximum = 28ms, Average = 27ms

tscs37 9y ago
I'm in Southern Germany, my ISP is a bit of a quack when I'm not using their own ad-riddled DNS (I suspect it's intentional)