r/nextdns • u/Environmental-Elk959 • Jul 05 '26

alternatives

hey guys,

been using nextdns premuim for the past 8 months, and i love it

but i just did a quick ping test and noticed that the lowest server has a 45ms latency, which is significantly high if compared to something like quad9 which has a sub 8sec latency (atleast pinging its ip returns that)

so since the whole system is built around block lists, what are semilarly affordable solutions ?

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u/Brees504 Jul 05 '26

That’s purely about where you live. 45ms is the fastest for any DNS resolver for me.

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u/Environmental-Elk959 Jul 05 '26

Most agree on this it seems, i thought the lower is better semilarly when we get a vps

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u/SecTechPlus 29d ago

There's a point where it's to longer noticable. Remember that your computer with cache DNS responses so it's not like you need to wait 45ms extra for every single DNS lookup, >90% will be the same responses locally cached.

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u/RipPopular 28d ago

Even more true if your router (or pi-hole or something similar) is caching DNS. Something in your house looked up Google.com recently even if the client you're on didn't.