Hi there, I’m looking to get into self-hosting for privacy reasons and I wanted to ask y’all: how inadvisable is it to utilize an ISP-owned router/modem? I feel like they’re able to track everything I do online with their more than likely integrated spyware.

    • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      I did one DNS query and it took 22 msec with the nearest OpenNIC server and 24 msec with Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1
      So dunno… roughly same responsiveness? Maybe OpenNIC is a tad faster? For a proper answer we’d need to do more measurements, though. And with OpenNIC you definitely need to pick a good server, not just any random one. They’ll have different locations, different policies and they’re in widely different datacenters.

        • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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          8 hours ago

          Isn’t it a global effort? According to what I see, they list a bunch of servers in all Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, …Japan?!

          • non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            8 hours ago

            Of the tier 1 servers, 2 are in DE and 2 are in USA.

            You won’t really hit tier2 unless you’re trying to hit very specific records.

            • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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              8 hours ago

              I don’t think you’re supposed to query Tier 1 servers as a client. I keep forgetting how DNS and recursive lookup works, but the Tier 2 servers would be what people connect to and who do the heavy lifting. The Tier 1 do the root, authoritative stuff and their custom TLDs.