[2716057]

The workarounds on this page mostly suggest to use large public resolvers. Feature request (not sure if the author is on HN): it would be interesting to know which domains are blocked by 9.9.9.9, 1.1.1.1, and especially the new DNS4EU service.

[p2detar]

Thanks so much for this. I never heard about DNS4EU before.

https://www.joindns4.eu/about

[sunaookami]

"Supported by the European Commission" is a massive red flag.

[nicce]

Few years ago I would have been happy about such a service in EU level. Now I just fear how they are planning to misuse it.

[throw28158916]

Sadly dns4eu does not support dnscrypt protocol which is deal-breaker in 2025 if you ask me.

[iggldiggl]

One problem I've run into with that approach is that Akamai uses DNS for steering you to the correct portion of its CDN and the default servers you get from public DNS have abysmal peering with my ISP. So simply switching the default DNS in my router isn't enough, I'd actually have to run my own custom DNS resolver in order to special case Akamai there.

[31a05b9c]

9.9.9.9 provides a first-party tool to test domains against their block list

https://quad9.net/result/

and there is also 9.9.9.10, which does not perform any blocking (if it does, then no one has noticed that, which is unlikely)

[rsync]

Tangent: does anybody know which DNS server software that providers like dns4eu and nextdns use ?

Are they using nsd or bind or … did they write their own?

[madspindel]

DNS4EU is using the Knot resolver