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-NextDNS is a product with a free tier. It will always be limited in that sense. +Pihole is free and open. It is also yours to build,manage,customize as you pl
by technovader 7y ago
-NextDNS is a product with a free tier. It will always be limited in that sense.
+Pihole is free and open. It is also yours to build,manage,customize as you please.
-NextDNS is also further away, meaning there will be much more latency for all your DNS queries. It is usually best to run your own resolver, or have a local DNS server in your network.
+Pihole sits on a device on your network. You can also enable recursion directly on the pihole by installing Unbound on the same device.
- nullify88 7y ago> NextDNS is also further away, meaning there will be much more latency for all your DNS queries. It is usually best to run your own resolver, or have a local DNS server in your network. But your local PI resolver would likely have to pass on your request to an upstream DNS server if it isn't cached. Although its negligible, this extra hop would add latency. This is assuming the result isn't in the OS or browser DNS cache.
- snazz 7y agoI find that about half of my DNS requests hit the network cache and not upstream, which makes it worth it for me.
- poitrus 7y agoYour cache would work the same with NextDNS. I'm not sure to see your point.
- kerberos84 7y agoyes but in pi-hole case my cache is in my local network, in nextdns case it is far away on the internet