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The curious case of DNS and wi-fi router

Like any one with an internet connection, I have a wi-fi router at home. And if you have seen my older posts you would know that I use a DNS based ad blocker that I run on my home network. The ad blocker runs on a raspberry pi and I use its IP as the DNS server/cache in my router. I wanted to run a DNS performance test and I used the script dnsperf to do that. It basically runs a DNS query on the list of provided name servers and measures the time taken. Below are the result when running the test with my router(with IP :192.168.1.1) as the DHCP and pi(host name: pi) as the DNS server.

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