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    How is DNS server chosen?

    My Pi-hole broke, resulting in a DNS outage since it was the only configured DNS server. I want to add a second DNS server. If the number of queries sent to the second DNS server is small, it doesn't necessarily have to be a Pi-hole. I can't use DNSFilter since my router is no longer supported.
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    How is DNS server chosen?

    Thanks! The dnsmasq man page is scary... Your second quote is part of the description of the strict-order flag: "By default, dnsmasq will send queries to any of the upstream servers it knows about and tries to favour servers that are known to be up. Setting this flag forces dnsmasq to try each...
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    How is DNS server chosen?

    The WAN DNS servers of a router running Merlin
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    How is DNS server chosen?

    Among the two configured DNS servers, which one is chosen to answer a DNS query? The first one is always chosen first and the second one only if there's no answer after n seconds? Or is there load balancing happening? Thanks.
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