https://pi-hole.net/ is a project to consider for home and small business networks that you're looking to protect via DNS without sending all your requests to a third party.
Your requests are still forwarded to a third party with a Pi-hole. They are sometimes cached and sites you have blocked do not resolve, but choosing a DNS provider is still required.
Only non-cached requests go to a third party. And I don’t think there’s an easy way to prevent this unless you get a hold of all the zone files and copy in bulk.
What’s nice about pi-hole is that you get one request to sites like google.com until the record expires in the cache. If you use 8.8.8.8 as your dns you might end up requesting the same domain name a bunch of times depending on how your client caches and the caching is at 8.8.8.8. So dns will see lots of requests to the same domain.
snazz|7 years ago
prepend|7 years ago
What’s nice about pi-hole is that you get one request to sites like google.com until the record expires in the cache. If you use 8.8.8.8 as your dns you might end up requesting the same domain name a bunch of times depending on how your client caches and the caching is at 8.8.8.8. So dns will see lots of requests to the same domain.
kryogen1c|7 years ago