Been using NextDNS for a few months now, I cant even find a single flaw. DNS is fast, Both founder must be expert in networking, I have tried literally all the third party DNS services, Ad blocking or not and NextDNS is actually one of the best / fastest DNS services. And I often think of myself as having latency intolerance so it is very good. Despite what I thought 300,000 DNS queries/month was low it turns out I never exceeded that limit.
And its Dashboard / Control Panel, it is very fast, extremely responsive. Basically I love everything about NextDNS, from DNS Speed, Ease of use and Design. Anyone who want Ad blocking should give it a go.
Edit: Not affiliate with NextDNS, just personal opinion. Not sure why the downvote.
I've added my relatives to my NextDNS and have yet to receive a single complaint while blocking a whopping 25% of all requests. (Off course I turned off logging.) I'd be happy to pay them even for my limited number of requests.
You could be logging all DNS queries of your relatives by a single click of a button? Did you inform them of this possibility, just curious, not judging.
Logging is on by default and per system. So yes, that is definitely possible. The majority of users are my children so I don't feel the need to inform them and the SO was not fully informed other than "tell me if it breaks something".
It's a good question to reflect on though. If I install this at my parents should I tell them. The whole world is monitoring their DNS now and after this only (potentially) me and NextDNS.
Thanks for your reply. I usually cant inform my SO more anyway, simply not understanding the technical limitations or reasons for something, but I do always tell.
I'll be checking out nextDNS for sure, even though its just for seeing what its about etc.
> Most of the speed-ups come thanks to caching anyway.
I'm afraid you trivially dismiss how hard this is.
For e2e response times as low as 10s from any location, one needs a global footprint behind an anycast network. Both these things aren't easy to do (on your own), especially for something as ubiquitous as name resolution which needs near 100% uptime and consistently low latencies.
Fast isn't the only thing here though, nextdns provides custom configuration and logging over multiple endpoints (including ipv4) served from 33 points of presence. I'm sure keeping lights on with this setup gets tricky pretty quick, let alone implementing features at the pace that they have been. Romain Contepas and Olivier Poitrus are the only reasons nextdns is what it is-- They are world-class experts in building such systems.
> I'm afraid you trivially dismiss how hard this is.
I ask, in what world do you have "slow DNS"? The choices out there is ISP run which virtually always low latency, an anycast run service, or running your own.
I don't care what technology you throw at the problem or who designed it, there really isn't "slow DNS", just bad choices of DNS servers that incur a round-trip latency penalty. I will assert again what keeps DNS "fast" is the aggressive caching of responses.
And its Dashboard / Control Panel, it is very fast, extremely responsive. Basically I love everything about NextDNS, from DNS Speed, Ease of use and Design. Anyone who want Ad blocking should give it a go.
Edit: Not affiliate with NextDNS, just personal opinion. Not sure why the downvote.