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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
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                @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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