You don't NEED to, but you probably should.Growingupisold wrote: ↑Waiting for someone smarter to come and tell me whether I need to change my desktop's DNS to this for whatever reason..
ISP DNS usually sucks.
You still need an upstream DNS though.
To be honest... a Pi is a better idea long term.
Assuming a buck a watt a year, a notebook that consumes 40W will use more electricity than a Pi costs over 2 years.
The Pi uses power too, but it's only a couple watts.
Now to contradict everything I just said, I run Pi-Hole in a VM that uses more like 400W.
But it's already on and running other services so it doesn't really count.
Sadly... It usually is.
Wait. What? A DNS request to an external DNS shouldn't use your ISP's DNS. That's the point.You -> Your ISP's Network (including DNS server) -> Internet backbone -> Google DNS / Open DNS / Cloudflare.
DNS uses IP addresses. That's why Google, Cloudflare and Level3 use easy to remember addresses like 1.1.1.1 / 8.8.8.8. / 4.2.2.1
I mean... if you really want to get technical, your router and your computer will probably cache too so any site you visit frequently will already be cached locally.Logically, the shortest route is the fastest. Since you're not the only one on your ISP's DNS Server, most common sites you're likely to visit (google, facebook, tsn, etc. will be cached/remembered by your ISP's DNS server), making it have the fastest response time. Cloudflare/Google dns/etc might be faster for the rarely visited domains like freevacationrentals.com.
Nope. That's why I'm on the internet arguing with strangers. If I had anything better to do I'd probably be doing it.Do you not have anything else to do rather than argue with strangers on the internet