@scottalanmiller said in What does Quad9 do the Pihole does not:

@thwr said in What does Quad9 do the Pihole does not:

@jaredbusch said in What does Quad9 do the Pihole does not:

@thwr said in What does Quad9 do the Pihole does not:

Just from reading I would say he's using Quad9 as upstream DNS for his PiHole (which is used by clients)

I know that. I mean, what is the service Quad9 doing.

It's another "privacy" friendly DNS driven by IBM, Packet Clearing House (PCH) and Global Cyber Alliance (GCA). Placed as an alternative to Google's DNS

"Privacy friendly" is what we are worried about. It's from the US gov't so we really don't trust it.

I'm sure you've noticed the quotes around "privacy".

@tim_g said in Quad9 DNS Malicious Domain Blocking Service:

I stopped testing Quad9 on my computer. I've been having some weird issues with GitLab errors on the website. As soon as I plugged in Google's DNS, it worked.

But then again, a refresh or two got it working again while I was still using Quad9.

I'll update later to report if any issue like that returns now that I'm using Google on my computer.

Nope, was not Quad9 related.

I think it's some kind of timeout I never noticed before or GitLab is having issues.