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Not at all. I also just checked via dig if there is any slowdown and dig didn't report any. (I first queried google.com with the large hosts file, then replace
by t0astbread 7y ago
Not at all.
I also just checked via dig if there is any slowdown and dig didn't report any. (I first queried google.com with the large hosts file, then replaced the hosts file with a default one, cleaned my DNS caches and requeried and it didn't show any speedup.)
- t0astbread 7y agoFurthermore, I don't know how Pi-Hole works internally so I don't know if it's somehow specially optimized compared to /etc/hosts or implements any caching strategies but wouldn't introducing another server in your DNS chain slow things down more than /etc/hosts which is always present anyways?