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DNS through Netguard (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Philo@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've been using adguards free DNS to eliminate adds and recently switched to Mullvads add free DNS. Mullvad lets through a few ads adguad catches but stops many other things. Since Netguard has 2 slots for DNS, I put them both. Is that a problem, or do I have the best of both worlds?

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[–] Ocelot@lemmies.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Usually your OS will just send dns requests to both servers at once and just accept whichever responds first. UDP isnt very smart.

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Not sure about that, maybe that's the an approach for one OS, but most of the devices I have almost exclusively hit the first DNS.

Looking right now my primary DNS has ~29k queries across 17 clients with a fairly even spread across the top 5-6, while secondary shows 2.5k queries across 7 clients, with one client alone (a Mac) representing 2k of those queries.