Suggestions on free & uncensored DNS servers (fast from Northern Europe)?

garam , 11 months ago

blahdns.com, swiss based? It’s also blocking ads.

You can set it on systemd I remember

wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-resolved#DNS_ove…

…redhat.com/…/using-different-dns-servers-for-dif…

blog.benyamin.xyz/…/dns-in-systemd-land-using-res…

AnonStoleMyPants , 11 months ago

Wait what does dns have to do with censoring? I though censoring would come from your internet provider and changing dns provider would not actually circumvent anything because the connection is still going through them. Am I completely mistaken?

pglpm OP , 11 months ago

Probably bad terminology on my part, sorry. I believe that some DNS servers do block some sites, though, e.g. torrent sites or similar kinds.

AnonStoleMyPants , 11 months ago

Oh okay yeah that makes sense.

passepartout , 11 months ago

Free, uncensored, from northern europe (Denmark): https://blog.censurfridns.dk/

honorable mention: Digitale Gesellschaft (Switzerland): https://www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/dns/

As for DNS Benchmarking: I used a Shell Script to check the performance of my pi hole. I got that from github, just look for “dns benchmark github” and you’ll find tons of script in all languages people wrote.

Edit: got two more:

Dns.watch (Germany): https://dns.watch/

Digital Courage (Germany): https://digitalcourage.de/support/zensurfreier-dns-server

pglpm OP , 11 months ago

Great tips, thank you!

iuser , 11 months ago

May want to take a look at quad nine dns server.

luke , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Tried unbound ?

docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/

pglpm OP , 11 months ago

Never heard of it before, cheers.

foxinabox , 11 months ago

While self-hosting reduces the number of requests to upstream, it does not completely solve the problem (since OP still needs to forward requests to an upstream DNS). Do you have any suggestions for that?

Fryboyter , 11 months ago

Unbound can be configured to make requests directly to the DNS “root server” . These should not be censored. The guide linked by surfbum explains this accordingly.