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    Diversion Blocking percentage

    That would be a very small percentage of the web browsing going on in my network. 5 computers and 50 other iot and media devices. It may be a different way AGH tabulates data, but its a big enough difference to catch my attention.
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    Diversion Blocking percentage

    I recently moved from running AGH on a Mac, to Diversion on my RT-AX86U. I am running the same blocking list, OISD large, but I see that my percentage of blocked destinations is much lower on Diversion. OISD running on AGH blocked about 7% of traffic, but on Diversion it is only 1.2%. Any...
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    ControlD with Merlin

    I ma going to try ATT servers for a few days and see how it goes.
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    ControlD with Merlin

    My latency to the various public DNS servers is good. The real question is, which one routes me to the best CDN PoP. I would suspect it is the server from AT&T, and its latency is crazy fast, but I have read that many people on ATT say their server is not reliable. Google at least supports...
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    ControlD with Merlin

    Yes, I understand anycast. I feel we are drifting off topic though. I ran several DNS tests today using Gibson Research and WhatRoute apps. ControlD for me is the slowest by a wide margin. (bad routing) ATT is the fastest (6ms) The other major public DNS providers all come in about the same...
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    ControlD with Merlin

    I know but the only way I will connect to off network DNS servers is using DOT or DOH.
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    ControlD with Merlin

    I do see an immediate performance improvement with streaming services(Netflix etc) when ECS is on and using DNS servers not provided by my ISP. My ISP (ATT Fiber) has the fastest DNS servers(expected) but they are not the most stable. I am sure that ATT has many CDN providers servers inside...
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    ControlD with Merlin

    nope not concerned. When security is needed I have a VPN.
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    ControlD with Merlin

    but not ECS
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    ControlD with Merlin

    ISP has two DNS servers, one is flaking out and only responds to about 30% of the pings sent to it. Neither supports ECS. Google DNS does support ECS and page loads are very fast. Only problem is, well it's Google. To some ECS might not matter, but I get most of my TV channels as TVE feeds on...
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    ControlD with Merlin

    Same thing I noticed. Even though ControlD is only 25ms ping away, page loads seem slow and do stall sometimes. Cloudflare and OpenDNS are much much faster but they don't support ECS and my streaming apps and my Channels DVR system really work much better when routed to the proper CDN.
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    ControlD with Merlin

    I have been testing ControlD DNS with encryption. I have been entering the server settings directly into the Merlin interface for DOT. Results have been unstable. One of the developers at ControlD says I should use DOH by installing their daemon onto the router. Their reasoning for wanting me...
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    Using DOT DNS breaks ECS

    Script is working. I have ECS now over DOT. Thanks
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    Using DOT DNS breaks ECS

    Perfect, I will add this and give it a shot. I find my streaming services are much more reliable when ECS is passed. Yes I know the evils of Google, but at least I can stop my ISP from getting in the middle of DNS requests and injecting their own data.
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    Using DOT DNS breaks ECS

    Any way to disable that?
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    Using DOT DNS breaks ECS

    I noticed that if I use the DOT version of Google DNS servers in the WAN settings, that ECS data is not being passed to Google. If I turn off DOT and just use unencrypted 8.8.8.8 then ECS data is properly sent to Google. Is this a limitation of DOT in general or the implementation of DOT in Merlin?
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    clients connected to node by ethernet show as connected to main router

    This is completely normal behavior. I have four wired devices on my node and they all show as connected to the router, which is exactly what they are. The ethernet ports on the node are just a switch, like any other switch, and it's an unmanaged switch at that. So to your network all wired...
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    Problems with Sophos RED behind RT-AX86U

    I work from home managing 120 Macs across the country. To connect to my companies network I have a Sophos RED VPN device. My work Mac is connected directly to the RED and the RED is connected to the RT-AX86U. I use Apple Remote Desktop to remote into the Macs. Every now and then I lose all ARD...
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    AdGuard Home

    you have something not right. Also should mention that if you have DNS Director on, you must turn it off. It wont work with it on. Also you are sure you have the correct IPv4 address in the LAN settings?
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    AdGuard Home

    I did not see the router handing out any IPv6 unless I put something in that box. I would say maybe 5% of my queries show up as IPv6.
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