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Title: Is public-dns.info still actively updated? Any alternative?
Post by: Mpegger on November 30, 2025, 08:39:01 PM
To anyone in the know, is public-dns.info still actively updated? Thier last changelog entry is from 2020, and on the main front page the recent server last checked times all show 2 years ago. Thier Contact link also forwards to a different site.

If they aren't active anymore, is there another such actively updated public DNS server list that I can use in Opnsense as an alias for blocking purposes?
Title: Re: Is public-dns.info still actively updated? Any alternative?
Post by: meyergru on November 30, 2025, 09:42:27 PM
You could just port-forward port 53 to your own DNS instance to block any other DNS server instead of relying on incomplete lists of any kind.

Title: Re: Is public-dns.info still actively updated? Any alternative?
Post by: Mpegger on November 30, 2025, 11:10:54 PM
Already have 53 and 853 blocked, and 53 forwarded. I'm more concerned about DNS over HTTP and supposedly that site also tracked DoH sites, and thier list was updated daily. Keyword there seeming to be "was". Even looking at the country listings shows everything lat being checked 2 or more years ago.

I should probably ask if there is a known realiable regularly updated list of DoH servers to use for blocking purposes?