I have been using NextDNS over the past two years, and am generally happy with their service. However, I’ve never compared their quality against the other recommended ones (like Control D, Quad 9, Mullvad, etc) particularly in terms of ping. I’m based in Australia. Any fellow Aussies using any of these services and care to share their experience, and potentially a recommended service?
My NextDNS renewal date is coming up and I’d like to know whether to stay or try other services.
Not really addressing the core issue but here’s some unsolicited advice: run some type of resolver locally that caches; specifically something that’ll cache all the
NXDOMAIN
and/or0.0.0.0
you’ll get back. It’ll really speed things up especially if you can add in some prefetching. I do this with unbound.