My ISPs DNS lookup takes literally one second every time, so I went with Quad9, it really sped up my browsing. Do you know any other alternatives?

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[–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

I've been using a PiHole for years now. It's super easy to set up. In practice, it's been the most reliable thing I keep on a pi. Technically, you don't need to host it on a raspberry pi, but you should host it on an always-on computer on your network.

Kind of a different way of looking at security; you can't guarantee someone's not keeping DNS logs, but you can guarantee that your DNS logs on a hard drive in your house aren't being shared.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    you still need to point the pihole somewhere though

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Unbound is a better solution. It queries the root, TLD, and authoritative servers recursively. Then it caches the response (for a quicker response next time). It works flawlessly with Pi-hole.

    https://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/unbound/about/

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