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    • travisdh1T
      travisdh1 @NetworkNerd
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      @NetworkNerd I like Cloudflare to use the encrypted DNS channels. I know Google offers the same thing, but would rather use Cloudflare.

      I haven't had any issues with the Cloudflare DNS service.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        CloudFlare here.

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        • wrx7mW
          wrx7m @dbeato
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          @dbeato said in Pi-Hole Upstream DNS Providers:

          I use CloudFlare, Google and OPENDNS. I have need to do this when CloudFlare at some moments stops working.

          How often does Cloudflare stop working?

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          • NashBrydgesN
            NashBrydges @wrx7m
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            @wrx7m said in Pi-Hole Upstream DNS Providers:

            @dbeato said in Pi-Hole Upstream DNS Providers:

            I use CloudFlare, Google and OPENDNS. I have need to do this when CloudFlare at some moments stops working.

            How often does Cloudflare stop working?

            Their DNS was down for a bit almost a year ago I think but that's the only outage I'm aware of.

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              Curtis @wrx7m
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              @wrx7m said in Pi-Hole Upstream DNS Providers:

              How often does Cloudflare stop working?

              Who cares? Use two different providers.

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              • black3dynamiteB
                black3dynamite
                last edited by black3dynamite

                If you are using Pi-Hole in-house and your router (edgerouter) name servers is set to cloudflare, should Pi-Hole upstream be pointing to the router IP?

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                • Reid CooperR
                  Reid Cooper @black3dynamite
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                  @black3dynamite said in Pi-Hole Upstream DNS Providers:

                  If you are using Pi-Hole in-house and your router (edgerouter) name servers is set to cloudflare, should Pi-Hole upstream be pointing to the router IP?

                  Probably not, you want to limit your caches.

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                  • wrx7mW
                    wrx7m @Curtis
                    last edited by

                    @Curtis said in Pi-Hole Upstream DNS Providers:

                    @wrx7m said in Pi-Hole Upstream DNS Providers:

                    How often does Cloudflare stop working?

                    Who cares? Use two different providers.

                    I was wondering how often he experienced outages with Cloudflare. I haven't noticed anything.

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                    • dbeatoD
                      dbeato @wrx7m
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                      @wrx7m said in Pi-Hole Upstream DNS Providers:

                      @dbeato said in Pi-Hole Upstream DNS Providers:

                      I use CloudFlare, Google and OPENDNS. I have need to do this when CloudFlare at some moments stops working.

                      How often does Cloudflare stop working?

                      I get high spikes on CLoudflares from time to time and DNS stops working randomly so I only find out when I had Cloudflare as my only DNS. Since then I use two or more DNS providers.

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                      • JaredBuschJ
                        JaredBusch @dbeato
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                        @dbeato said in Pi-Hole Upstream DNS Providers:

                        @wrx7m said in Pi-Hole Upstream DNS Providers:

                        @dbeato said in Pi-Hole Upstream DNS Providers:

                        I use CloudFlare, Google and OPENDNS. I have need to do this when CloudFlare at some moments stops working.

                        How often does Cloudflare stop working?

                        I get high spikes on CLoudflares from time to time and DNS stops working randomly so I only find out when I had Cloudflare as my only DNS. Since then I use two or more DNS providers.

                        I don't do that only because the Pi-Hole interface has no way to prioritize which one is used first that I can see.
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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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                          @JaredBusch I suspect that if you put them into Custom that it prioritizes in the order that you select.

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                          • JaredBuschJ
                            JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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                            @scottalanmiller said in Pi-Hole Upstream DNS Providers:

                            @JaredBusch I suspect that if you put them into Custom that it prioritizes in the order that you select.

                            But then there are only two possible.

                            If I checked the boxes, I could have 4 over two providers, or more.

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                            • black3dynamiteB
                              black3dynamite @scottalanmiller
                              last edited by black3dynamite

                              @scottalanmiller said in Pi-Hole Upstream DNS Providers:

                              @JaredBusch I suspect that if you put them into Custom that it prioritizes in the order that you select.

                              If you look in the setupVars.conf file, they are listed like this.
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                              So you might have to edit the file instead.
                              But if you click the save button from the web ui, it will reset the ordering of the upstream dns servers.

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