

Why worry so much about DNS queries? This is your least concern. Your bank knows when, where and what you use your cards for. Your mobile service provider knows exactly where you are at the moment. Do you have a cellphone or a laptop? Apple, Google, Microsoft already know a lot about you. Basically you sacrifice simplicity and reliability chasing non-existing or not needed privacy. With home routers the simpler setup the better unless you like to tinker with it all the time and look at numbers, graphs, queries, blocks, play with blocklists, etc. Public DNS providers will hide your WAN IP as well as potential extra security.

Your browser caches queries as well, remember? OpenDNS offers custom blocking categories with free home account if you are interested. with available DoT straight on the router. Its product on Android blocks trackers and ads in all apps and browsers making it a. You may get overall worse reliability and DNS resolution speed compared to no extra device and built-in Dnsmasq forwarder to always available 10-30ms away huge cache Google, Cloudflare, OpenDNS, etc. Its able to be used on Android, iOS, Windows, Networks and even your DNS. I think that it is showing that most dns queries are going via unbound but are not encrypted.įor DNS1 - can I improve this or is this as good as it gets using unbound?įor DNS2 - if I change the nextdns IP to the DNS-over-TLS/QUIC address in the dhcp settings - will this enable dns privacy on the 5-10% of dns queries that do not go through DNS1?


If you happen to have DD-WRT or Tomato firmware on your router, I recommend making use of the DNSEncrypt at the router level. You can find a DNSEncrypt configuration manual for each platform here.
