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In general, the idea of DNS's design is to use the DNS resolver closest to you, rather than the one run by the largest company. That said, it's a good idea to
by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago
In general, the idea of DNS's design is to use the DNS resolver closest to you, rather than the one run by the largest company.
That said, it's a good idea to specifically pick multiple resolvers in different regions, on different backbones, using different providers, and not use an Anycast address, because Anycast can get a little weird. However, this can lead to hard-to-troubleshoot issues, because DNS doesn't always behave the way you expect.
- ben0x539 1y agoIsn't the largest company most likely to have the DNS resolver closest to me?
- fragmede 1y agoYour ISP should have a DNS revolver closer to you. "Should" doesn't necessarily mean faster, however.
- lxgr 1y agoI’ve had ISPs with a DNS server (configured via DHCP) farther away than 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8.
- encom 1y agoIn case of Denmark, ISP DNS also means censored. Of course it started with CP, as it always does, then expanded to copyrights, pharmaceuticals, gambling and "terrorism". Except for the occasional Linux ISO, I don't partake in any of these topics, but I'm opposed to any kind of censorship on principle. And naturally, this doesn't stop anyone, but politicians get to stand in front of television cameras and say they're protecting children and stopping terrorists. </soapbox>
- nullify88 1y agoNot just that. ISPs are often subject to certain data retention laws. For Denmark (And other EU countries) that maybe 6 months to 2 years. And considering close ties with "9 eyes" means America potentially has access to my information anyway. Judging by Cloudflare's privacy policy, they hold less personally identifiable information than my ISP while offering EDNS and low latencies? Win, win, win.
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- sschueller 1y agoNo, your ISP can have a server closer before any external one.
- dontTREATonme 1y agoWhat’s your recommendation for finding the dns resolver closest to me? I currently use 1.1 and 8.8, but I’m absolutely open to alternatives.
- LeoPanthera 1y agoThe closest DNS resolver to you is the one run by your ISP.
- JdeBP 1y agoActually, it's about 20cm from my left elbow, which is physically several orders of magnitude closer than anything run by my ISP, and logically at least 2 network hops closer. And the closest resolving proxy DNS server for most of my machines is listening on their loopback interface. The closest such machine happens to be about 1m away, so is beaten out of first place by centimetres. (-: It's a shame that Microsoft arbitrarily ties such functionality to the Server flavour of Windows, and does not supply it on the Workstation flavour, but other operating systems are not so artificially limited or helpless; and even novice users on such systems can get a working proxy DNS server out of the box that their sysops don't actually have to touch. The idea that one has to rely upon an ISP, or even upon CloudFlare and Google and Quad9, for this stuff is a bit of a marketing tale that is put about by thse self-same ISPs and CloudFlare and Google and Quad9. Not relying upon them is not actually limited to people who are skilled in system operation, i.e. who they are; but rather merely limited by what people run: black box "smart" tellies and whatnot, and the Workstation flavour of Microsoft Windows. Even for such machines, there's the option of a decent quality router/gateway or simply a small box providing proxy DNS on the LAN. In my case, said small box is roughly the size of my hand and is smaller than my mass-market SOHO router/gateway. (-:
- lxgr 1y agoIs that really a win in terms of latency, considering that the chance of a cache hit increases with the number of users?
- AStonesThrow 1y ago[dead]