An option to use the all-servers flag (and other options of priorizing the list of servers) of dnsmasq would be nice. From my point of view it changes the way the servers are accessed. With the flag, there seems to be parallel requests, with the first reply being used for forwarding. This might be a…

For now, you can add it to a custom config file under /etc/dnsmasq.d

this is what i do, now. but ticking a flag (default,strict-order,all-server) in the webfrontend would help the non-advanced users to opt out the limits of dnsmasq for pihole. maybe, easy to implement and worth to be set up in the frontend. thanks for considering my request.

[image] davekr8: but ticking a flag [...] in the webfrontend would help the non-advanced users We would have to explain users what the different options mean in short and easy sentences. For all-servers this may be something along the lines of Setting this flag forces dnsmasq to send all qu…

Precondition: Multiple DNS server defined. strict-order Try each query with each server strictly in the order they appear. all-servers Send all queries to all available servers. First reply will be forwarded. default Send queries to just one (favoured) server. Setting all-servers will result …

How would this be set in FTLDNS?

FTLDNS is, in fact, dnsmasq, just embedded into the FTL daemon. There is no difference to how you'd have done it before (set the option in any file in /etc/dnsmasq.d, preferably in a new file)

Pi-hole Userspace

Option all-servers for multiple DNS servers to enable minimizing the latency

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