Hey gang, I’m considering using DNS4EU in Canada. My ping to their servers is ~130ms. That’s way longer than anything local which is on the order of 1-5ms. Apart from resolving uncached entries taking longer, is there any contraindication to using a DNS server with high latency?

  • patrickA
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    10 hours ago

    130ms is perceivable but still quite small, and you’d only hit it once per domain (per TTL). If you care enough to intentionally use it then I wouldn’t worry about it. You’ll rarely notice the difference.

    There are a few other services with similar ethos that you may want to check out as alternatives. Quad9 is the one I remember off the top of my head.

    • Klajan@lemmy.zip
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      7 hours ago

      I was using Quad9 for quite some time, but I had consistent problems with the DNS sometimes not working.

      In my local network I switched to pihole with unbound as the resolver. Though this does require a bit more setup. I have unbound setup to serve expired records from the cache & prefetch comment queries, this helps with most of the delay.

      On my phone I use dnsforge.de when I am not at home for example, and haven’t had any problems with unresponsive DNS so far.