To the point I wish NextDNS would start offering Managed DNS services like Amazon Route 53 or DnsMadeEasy.
Nowadays TTL are pretty short because infra is very dynamic, you don't necessarily hit the cache that often. And a random webpage will pull assests from all over the place, with many different domains/subdomains, all requiring DNS resolution.
In the end, even if it's hidden you can definitely feel it in the "snapiness" of loading webpages. Of course when you only load/stream content it has no impact, so it is really dependent on your usage patterns.
Running your own private DNS resolver is also much faster, even with a medium org, you can definitely feel it.
The NextDNS web UI is flippin fast and very simple. Feels more akin to HN. ControlD’s is slow and feels so heavy. Maybe more like new Reddit.
ControlD offers Hagezi’s TIF list and allows custom lists to be set. NextDNS’s built-in TIF is very opaque. This was really the deciding factor for me. Unfortunately.
NextDNS is so good, and their free tier so generous, that sometimes I feel bad for not having to pay for it. Can’t recommend enough.
it's great service.
my only issue with it is that when sites break, it is hard to fix (by adding and exclusion / whitelist).
I wish they had some browser extension that let me whitelist more easily
if you are using tailscale already, with it setup as the DNS resolver,
you can setup NextDNS as the global resolver within tailscale[1];
i'm not sure exactly how much my latency's being affected, but am at something like 900k queries/mo and don't really notice it
ra•1mo ago