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Suggestions on free & uncensored DNS servers (fast from Northern Europe)? (self.linux)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by pglpm to c/[email protected]

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Well the title says it all.

As a second question: anyone knows of a benchmarking program for DNS services that doesn't need Wine?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Free, uncensored, from northern europe (Denmark): https://blog.censurfridns.dk/

honorable mention: Digitale Gesellschaft (Switzerland): https://www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/dns/

As for DNS Benchmarking: I used a Shell Script to check the performance of my pi hole. I got that from github, just look for "dns benchmark github" and you'll find tons of script in all languages people wrote.

Edit: got two more:

Dns.watch (Germany): https://dns.watch/

Digital Courage (Germany): https://digitalcourage.de/support/zensurfreier-dns-server

[–] pglpm 3 points 2 years ago

Great tips, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Tried unbound ?

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/

[–] pglpm 4 points 2 years ago

Never heard of it before, cheers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

While self-hosting reduces the number of requests to upstream, it does not completely solve the problem (since OP still needs to forward requests to an upstream DNS). Do you have any suggestions for that?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Unbound can be configured to make requests directly to the DNS "root server" . These should not be censored. The guide linked by surfbum explains this accordingly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

May want to take a look at quad nine dns server.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait what does dns have to do with censoring? I though censoring would come from your internet provider and changing dns provider would not actually circumvent anything because the connection is still going through them. Am I completely mistaken?

[–] pglpm 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Probably bad terminology on my part, sorry. I believe that some DNS servers do block some sites, though, e.g. torrent sites or similar kinds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Oh okay yeah that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://blahdns.com/, swiss based? It's also blocking ads.

You can set it on systemd I remember

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-resolved#DNS_over_TLS

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/configuring_and_managing_networking/using-different-dns-servers-for-different-domains_configuring-and-managing-networking#using-systemd-resolved-in-networkmanager-to-send-dns-requests-for-a-specific-domain-to-a-selected-dns-server_using-different-dns-servers-for-different-domains

https://blog.benyamin.xyz/2023/06/26/dns-in-systemd-land-using-resolvectl-temporary-set-get-status-and-clear-cache/

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