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Interesting that DNS look ups go to the Pi-hole in EC2, but the subsequent web requests come from the phone. This effectively nullifies the performance benefit
by billyhoffman 6y ago
Interesting that DNS look ups go to the Pi-hole in EC2, but the subsequent web requests come from the phone. This effectively nullifies the performance benefit of CDNs. Your phone is where ever it is, but your browser is being instructed to connect to edge servers that are geographically close to the AWS region where Pi-hole instance is running.
That said, the massive performance gains of blocking ads and intrusive 3PC probably more than makes up for it, but something to consider.
- Sohcahtoa82 6y agoNever actually thought of that, to be honest. But for the most part, I imagine it won't make much of a difference. I live within 300 miles of the data center containing my EC2 instance.
- lucasverra 6y agoI use https://nextdns.io/ https://nextdns.io/, that basically does that
- fragmede 6y agoRFC 7871 specifies ECS, in which the DNS forwards the client's subnet to the upstream DNS server in order for CDNs to continue to be useful. I have no idea if the Pi-hole is configured with this extension.