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[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Seems they are currently just using dns blocking. Using anything other than default should fix it for now. Look at quad nine or nextdns.

[–] baxster@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Now i am going to set up unbound. I am sick of DNS blocking...

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I’ve used Unbound for years but recently had to switch to Blocky for some weird reason. It turned out to be way, way faster than Unbound.

As a bonus, blocking thousands of advertising and tracking domains is much easier with Blocky (if you’re into that).

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I’ve used Unbound for years but recently had to switch to Blocky for some weird reason.

Blocky doesn’t appear to be a Recursive DNS resolver? It seems to still rely on upstream providers whereas Unbound directly communicates with the root distributors for the domains you lookup.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 points 2 weeks ago

Great point. I always forget that because I would never want to query without encryption.

[–] baxster@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for the tip! I use pihole and been using it for years so the blocking part is already taken care of😊

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think PiHole is using Unbound behind the scenes. What I like about Blocky is not only does the performance to be much, much more solid using an upstream resolver with high latency (VPN exiting in another country), it automatically refreshes the denylists (something I think PiHole has to do in a more roundabout way).