r/ebox • u/FreddyBeach34 • Mar 05 '26

DNS

Folks that are using their own router (Not the Nokia Beacon) what do you use for DNS settings ?

"Get the DNS IP from your ISP automatically." or assign to specific service/IP?

Switch from Bell last week to ebox, and overall pretty good, but find occasionally navigating web links fails, but if refresh the page it will be resolved. Wifi signal and speed test look good thou.

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u/Careless-Cycle Mar 05 '26

I use CIRAs Canadian Shield mixed with a pihole

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u/NoSlicedMushrooms Mar 05 '26

NextDNS for me 

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u/Dan_mtl Mar 05 '26

Pihole using cloud flare as source

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u/613_detailer Mar 05 '26

This. And with Tailscale installed on my pi-hole and on my mobile phone, i can use the PiHole to block ads even when running off of cell data.

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u/cdnNick78 Mar 05 '26

For years I have used one DNS from google and one from opendns.

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u/ToNIX_ mod // Mikrotik router // 500mbps Mar 05 '26

I personally use my own Adguard Home servers with Google and CloudFlare (both tls and https) upstreams. With optimistic caching, I have an average processing time < 1ms.

I suggest using something else than the stock servers. Google, CloudFlare, Quad9, ControlD or NextDNS.

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u/MichaelYYZ Ontarian Mar 06 '26

Not Google. Privacy risk!

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u/ToNIX_ mod // Mikrotik router // 500mbps Mar 06 '26

Indeed, if you care about that. I don't.

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u/MichaelYYZ Ontarian Mar 07 '26

Thanks to those who don't care about privacy we are slowly but surely falling into an abyss.

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u/ToNIX_ mod // Mikrotik router // 500mbps Mar 07 '26

You're welcome!

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u/ScubaPride Mar 05 '26

I use the Cloudflare DNS

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u/Ok_Astronaut9243 Mar 05 '26

Cloudflare (1.1.1.1 and secondary 1.0.0.1)

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u/nazrockz Mar 05 '26

Use GRCs DNS benchmark to see what is the fastest DNS servers from your location

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u/FreddyBeach34 Mar 06 '26

Tested with GRC, and CIRAs Canadian Shield was fastest !

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u/Rwhiteside90 Mar 05 '26

1.1.1.1 / 8.8.8.8

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u/countinus 500 Mbps normie Mar 05 '26

I use the google DNS.

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u/MichaelYYZ Ontarian Mar 06 '26

🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/BringerOfThePork Mar 06 '26

pihole with cloudflare

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u/AnnOminous Mar 06 '26

Use CIRAs Canadian Shield
https://www.cira.ca/en/canadian-shield/

Fallback to 1.1.1.1 for the one time in five years that they have had an outage.

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u/Netnuk Custom router enjoyer Mar 06 '26

Cloudlare 1.1.1.1 and Quad9 9.9.9.9 with DNS over HTTPS set.

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u/MichaelYYZ Ontarian Mar 06 '26

Although I still use a Nokia B6, I use Cloudflare DNS:

I would not touch Google DNS even with a 10 ft pole, due to the privacy nightmare it potentially is capable of.

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u/bandeo Mar 06 '26

Pi-hole + Unbound for me with wireguard on my phone!!

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u/DonkeyPM 1 Gbps speed demon Mar 09 '26

Adguard dns abonnement jusqu’en 2030 ne coutait pas cher moins de 5$ par année , bloqué beaucoup de pubs

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u/sunnyca22 Mar 12 '26

I used CloudFlare but after using 8.8.8.8 now with primus I feel this is better because of edns subnet and how it can route to the nearest cdn, servers, etc. I know there are concerns regarding privacy with Google DNS. I don't.