Serious Discussion Does anyone else get this at times with NextDNS?

[Morro]

Last weekend I decided to give NextDNS another chance, you know, to see if the speeds were still as slow as I remembered.

Maybe it is because I have a new PC, but it feels faster so far then it first felt. Any way I checked dnscheck.tools website if the connection was good. And for the most part it shows that it is good ... however there are moments when I checked that I saw all of this?

I could be wrong, but for something that should connect to the closest servers from where I live, should not connect to many of those. But this is not the only DNS service that does this. I switched back to dns0.EU to see if it would happen there as well. Well, it connected to the right servers, but it also seems to connect to a Google server in Washington DC. And Cloudflare did not show anything strange, but it is US owned so it can look around with you anyway.

But dns0.EU is from Europe so why the F does it need to connect to a Google server in Washington DC, and why does NextDNS have moments where it connects to so many different servers worldwide?

 

[Smoke]

I tested it out just to see and mine was also running through multiple servers/countries -

I ran the test again without DNS over HTTPS setup in windows and the result was all local -

 

[Morro]

Thank you for confirming it Smoke, I will try it without the DNS over HTTPS.

 

[SeriousHoax]

A few days ago, I saw the same for AdGuard DNS.
Cloudflare and Google are shown along with AdGuard in dnschecktools. In my case, all were servers from Singapore.
But for other DNS testing sites they look normal.

 

[Morro]

Well I tried what Smoke mentioned, but if I refresh the page on dnscheck.tools then I get all of those servers again. Guess I can go back to Cloudflare, at least there it only goes through Cloudflare servers only. Guess I will be checking a few DNS providers in the coming days.

 

[oldschool]

What are you folks using to test?

 

[Morro]

What are you folks using to test?

This site.

dnscheck.tools - check your dns resolvers

A tool to test for DNS leaks, DNSSEC validation, and more

www.dnscheck.tools

I just used it to see if the connection worked when I noticed the thing from my OP.

 

[oldschool]

I just used it to see if the connection worked when I noticed the thing from my OP.

I get the same result as you. My speed is fine. No complaints here.

 

[Andrew3000]

NextDNS seems to be an abandonment project. No more new features. Support is not responding to tickets. Full of outdated lists and there are often inefficiencies

 

[TairikuOkami]

No problems on all browsers, using DoH.

 

[SeriousHoax]

Could there be something wrong with the testing site? dnsleak test is a long-known reliable site for checking DNS leaks. Even Extended test here is only showing AdGuard DNS for me. Cloudflare, Google are not present here.

DNS leak test

www.dnsleaktest.com

Same is true for:

DNS Leak Test

The DNS Leak Test is a tool used to determine which DNS servers your browser is using to resolve domain names. This test attempts to resolve 50 randomly generated domain names, of which 25 are IPv4-only and 25 are IPv6-only.

browserleaks.com

Maybe something is wrong with dnscheck.tools's testing server.

 

[Morro]

No problems on all browsers, using DoH.

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Well, good to hear someone does not get those weird connections.

@oldschool

Good to hear the speed is fine for you.

@SeriousHoax

Thank you, I will see what dnsleak shows.

 

[Morro]

Well, DNS Leak only shows one or two connections, so in this case the question is … which one is correct? Or better yet, as correct as possible as a test like that can be.

 

[enaph]

What am I missing here?
Brave:

Safari:

 

[SpiderWeb]

Cannot confirm. Definitely something up with your particular connection. Seems like either DNS leak or some service you installed is obfuscating your DNS resolver for privacy.

 

[Jan Willy]

What am I missing here?
Brave:
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This isn't normal for Brave. All check marks should be set (my personal experience on NextDNS).

 

[Morro]

What am I missing here?
Brave:
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Safari:
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I do not get that result, for me they are all green.

 

[TairikuOkami]

Well, DNS Leak only shows one or two connections, so in this case the question is … which one is correct?

Both are correct. I asked adguard once about those connections and they said it is because they use 3rd party servers, since they can not afford their own like google or cloudflare.
So, you are basically using google servers or whatever company it belongs to, but DNS queries are routed, rebind or whatever the correct terminology is, to use NextDNS's template.
I believe dnschecktools goes beyond DNS and it shows the parent server's location, due to the limited IPv4 pool. Like when you set 8.8.8.8, it actually uses different IPs over the world.

 

[brambedkar59]

No problems on all browsers, using DoH.

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Same here. No issues.