I stumbled onto NextDNS recently — it’s like a cloud hosted Pi-hole. I tried it for a few days, but this post isn’t about that.

Reading about the different block lists in NextDNS, and digging deeper into DNS ad blocking gave me motivation to change my current setup — and that is what this post is about 🙂

I’ve been using dnsmasq as a local DNS resolver for a while, time to switch to Unbound instead.

After reading blog posts from BunnyCDN and Ctrl blog on the varying performance on top-level domains — I got curious on how .no would perform.