Do you use one or several providers ?
Do you use it at Browser, Device/OS, Router level ?
What’s your configuration ?
Two piholes at home (redundancy). Those both translate all regular DNS requests to DoH using Cloudflared which rotate through 4 non-isp upstream DoH providers.
The router is set to block all port 53 traffic from leaving the network and handout the 2 pihole IPs to dhcp clients for dns. If a LAN device wants regular dns, it MUST use the lan servers or it’ll get no response. (or it can use its own DoH setup and/or vpn out of the network). This enforces the ad/telemetry/malware blocking lists pihole uses without having to configure dns on everything.
Those piholes also keep lists/records in sync using Gravity-Sync. Should I change ad lists or add/remove lan dns records, I don’t have to do it on both.
Do you ever have any trouble blocking port 53? Do any services break?
Haven’t had any issues yet and it’s been blocked for at least 4 years now. Everything just happily uses the DNS servers specified by DHCP.
I use a mix: I’ve got hardcoded hosts files, default third party DNS provider, DoH providers (different for each browser), a PiHole, and a VPN-based DNS resolver that I can run on a per-app basis.
This way, I don’t trust a single provider to handle all my DNS traffic.
Can you elaborate more? Do you want controlled lookups, or just one of the public ad-removing providers?
DHCP at the router that gives out these two filtered DNS servers from AdGuard:
- 94.140.14.14
- 94.140.15.15
https://adguard-dns.io/en/blog/adguard-dns-new-addresses.html
I use several providers as upstream for Adguard Home where my blocklists, regex blocks and DNS rewrites are. Via DNS-over-TLS URL for Android phones or DHCP with the IP of the DNS-server they get directed to it.
I use Control-D, both on Android, through DNS over TLS, and at the router level, so that I’m protected from ads and malware, no matter whether I’m on cellular data or on Wi-Fi.
I use NextDNS. I use it network wide on my home internet and also have it installed on all my devices.
@Freuks I use pfsense and force all users to use the DNS that I set on the router, this allows me to use pfblockerNG to block ads, telemetry, etc. Instead, users who use the VPN (MULLVAD) will use the MULLVAD DNS to avoid DNS Leak
DNS is handled by my rpi that’s running pi-hole and wireguard. It has static entries for quad nine and it’s secondaries. Router (generic rax10 Netgear, nothing fancy, and it’s not obnoxious like the nighthawks) DNS points to rpi.
So any device, set with dhcp, will use that. One day I’ll have a opnsense or similar box to go even further.
Several providers depending if it’s home, mobile with VPN or not.
Pi-Hole using upstream Quad9 and Cloudflare, managed router redirect/blocking everything to Pi-Hole or no mans land, NextDNS out of the house for mobile devices or on WiFi I don’t control.
Mullvad’s DNS servers at the router level.
Single provide:Adguard on Device and OS level