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In my experience, recursive nameservers tend to be a bit slower than using cloud nameservers. Google and Cloudflare have most domains cached, so their responses
by jeroenhd 1y ago
In my experience, recursive nameservers tend to be a bit slower than using cloud nameservers. Google and Cloudflare have most domains cached, so their responses are faster, especially for domains with authoritative DNS servers on the other side of the world.
Another advantage is that cloud servers can be contacted over ODoH, which encrypts the lookups and protects the privacy of the user (which isn't the case for normal DoH either).
- adrian_b 1y agoYour recursive nameserver should also cache any resolved domains, so a small delay could happen only if you try to access for the first time some site that you have never visited in the recent past. In practice, I have used for decades only my own recursive nameservers and I have never perceived any slowness in comparison with computers that were using the ISP or Google or corporate nameservers. More like the opposite, presumably because my own cache always has the content that I access frequently.