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> How are you dealing with explaining how to change the DNS setting to people at home because "internet doesn't work"? I may be mistaken here but I thought the
by hnarn 7y ago
> How are you dealing with explaining how to change the DNS setting to people at home because "internet doesn't work"?
I may be mistaken here but I thought the reason almost all operating systems allow you to specify more than one DNS is in case the primary one goes down. So if you specify NextDNS as the primary and say, Google or whatever, as the secondary: you likely won't see downtime (but obviously the filtering will disappear until the primary one comes back up and/or DNS caches reset etc)
- XelNika 7y agoThat doesn't always work, because servers aren't always used in strict order. For example, my default Kubuntu 19.10 installation flips the primary and secondary if the primary is unresponsive for a while. Since my laptop takes a moment to establish a WiFi connection upon waking up, it always decides that the primary server is down and to default to the secondary server. It has currently been 3½ hours since my laptop queried its primary server and it has queried the secondary server over 1000 times in the past 24 hours despite the primary having 100% uptime. Most stub resolvers have an option to use strict order, but you can't rely on it as a network admin.
- BenjiWiebe 7y agoJust remove the second nameserver from the config. In my experience you can just leave the second DNS server field blank on most (all?) devices.
- XelNika 7y agoHow does that help the GP?