topic Re: Cloudflare dns in Tech Help - Software/Hardware etc

I was thinking more what the coloured bars mean in the graphs, as in, good, bad, normal, fault-ridden? Gotta have context to make sense of a bar graph...

Re: Cloudflare dns

30FTTC06 — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 22:10:55 GMT

In that case here's the couch potato version just for you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmEkB-M28fE

Re: Cloudflare dns

twocvbloke — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 02:48:31 GMT

Thought about watching, but I decided Cheers was more funny...

Re: Cloudflare dns

VileReynard — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:46:13 GMT

1.0.0.1 and 1.1.1.1 are massively faster than Plusnet.

I also use dnsmasq to cache domains in memory - which can give sub-millisecond response times.

Re: Cloudflare dns

HairyMcbiker — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 10:11:07 GMT

Been using a pi hole server for a while now, very fast and it has the benefit of blocking ads as well. Just running with a pi zero W and a button/led combo to disable it if needed.
Not been happy with cloudfare wrt websites "protected" by them, so wouldn't trust them with DNS, will stick to Google via my pi hole server.

Re: Cloudflare dns

30FTTC06 — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 10:29:10 GMT

I was just about to start looking into the data side, it is said your data is deleted on a regular basis but your ip is logged.

I've only done a bit of testing so far but it seems pretty smart ish, as for add blocking I'm using this script to block adds at the router level which works pretty fast. Plusnet has been a little sluggish for me over the last while which has prompted me to look at this again, even better with fresh view 1.1.. I guess

_rogue=0.0.0.0
echo -e "n=1\nwhile ! wget -q -O /tmp/hsts http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt ; do\n\t[ \$n -gt 5 ] && break\n\tlet n+=1\n\tsleep 60\ndone\ngrep \"^0.0.0.0\" /tmp/hsts | grep \"^0.0.0.0\" | grep -v localhost | awk '{print \"$_rogue\\\t\"\$2}' | tr -d '\\\015' >/tmp/dlhosts\nrm /tmp/hsts\nkillall -HUP dnsmasq" >/tmp/wh
sh /tmp/wh &

I did like the look of Pi-Hole but after using two pi's for dns for a year or so I wanted to move onto something else, very good idea all the same though.

Re: Cloudflare dns

30FTTC06 — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 10:45:56 GMT

@HairyMcbiker wrote:
will stick to Google via my pi hole server.

CDNPerf https://www.cdnperf.com/ shows google to be the fastest, but I just can't bring meself to use them though sadly.

Re: Cloudflare dns

30FTTC06 — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:47:46 GMT

I'm not convinced that google is faster in the UK at least.

Mr potato-head, please stay on your sofa as this may make your head really hurt

Re: Cloudflare dns

ejs — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:54:14 GMT

Perhaps you could make a script to randomly set your DNS servers from a choice of say either Plusnet's, Google's or Cloudflare's, so that you don't know which ones are being used, and see if you can tell the difference.

Re: Cloudflare dns

30FTTC06 — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:28:05 GMT

I'm quite happy Cloudflare are faster than plusnet, I was just curious as to why @HairyMcbiker thought google was faster.

But for sure DNSPerf https://www.dnsperf.com/#!dns-providers,Europe think they have 1.1.1.1 on top.

which still leaves the security question of the dns provider.

Re: Cloudflare dns

HairyMcbiker — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:41:26 GMT

@30FTTC06 I didn't say google was faster, I just said I was happier with them than cloudflare.

Re: Cloudflare dns

30FTTC06 — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:45:29 GMT

ahh sorry my bad

Re: Cloudflare dns

7up — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 04:16:08 GMT

Incidentally, DNS jumper has a built in nameserver tester (and a nice long list of nameservers included to test). It's free and does a good job of switching your DNS configuration to one of many presets (including custom) at the click of a mouse.

Re: Cloudflare dns

30FTTC06 — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:33:00 GMT

Just adding for my own reference.

no-resolv
server=1.1.1.1
server=1.0.0.1