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JupiterSnarl lemmy.world KingDingbat@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-03-10
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Hiya!
I've been using for dnsforge.de as my private DNS on my android phone for a year or so, and I've noticed about once a day my phone tells me that the dns can't be reached, and about once a week I can't access something on my phone without turning off the private dns.

Is this normal? I am in the US and I know they're in Germany, but I wondered if this happens to everyone or if something is going on with my phone, and if there are other good options?

Thanks!

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BandanaBug piefed.social BandanaBug@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-07-17
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Does it happen on WiFi or mobile data?

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Undertaker feddit.org Undertaker@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-23
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Had the same problem. Contacted the admin who said that I was blocked due to many requests. The problem: They block critical queries sending something like 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1. So the problematic connection cannot be established. That is the intended behavior. But the problematic will keep retrying and therefore you get blocked. When having startet my companies notebook (I got blocked) due to many Windows requests. Don't know why but the treshold is not high enough

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Voxel feddit.uk voxel@feddit.uk
Joined: 2026-03-05
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Had the same problem. Contacted the admin who said that I was blocked due to many requests. The problem: They block critical queries sending something like 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1. So the problematic connection cannot be established. That is the intended behavior. But the problematic will keep retrying and therefore you get blocked. When having startet my companies notebook (I got blocked) due to ...

It is 100 requests every 10 seconds

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JupiterSnarl lemmy.world KingDingbat@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-03-10
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Does it happen on WiFi or mobile data?

Both, but I think most commonly mobile.

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JupiterSnarl lemmy.world KingDingbat@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-03-10
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Turns out both 5G and wifi ... Happening a lot today

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JupiterSnarl lemmy.world KingDingbat@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-03-10
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I'm guessing that because both ISPs are reporting it at the same time, this must be on dnsforge's end or at least some network problem between my locale and germany, yeah?

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