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I always just set up root recursors at my home and other locations. I've never noticed any downside.
by kev009 4mo ago
I always just set up root recursors at my home and other locations. I've never noticed any downside.
- icedchai 4mo agoSame. I’ve been running my own caching DNS servers since my earliest home network, dating back almost 30 years.
- colinsane 4mo agothe _one_ downside i've seen is on an airplane serviced by Starlink: UDP was extremely lossy to the point that whatever recursive resolver i was using at the time would mark half of all nameservers it saw as "unhealthy" and start returning NXDOMAINs to the clients before even trying to hit the authoritative NS.
- themacguffinman 4mo agoThe downside is obviously that uncached queries take much longer (adding >100ms) and more queries are uncached since you can't share the cache with a large user-base. Unless you just visit the same websites over and over again, this results in worse overall performance.
- kev009 4mo agoI've never felt this. Most large services run or delegate to anycast DNS services. If you have knowledge of TCP, you know you will occasionally get stalls much greater than that beyond control.
- abcdefg12 4mo agoDownside is privacy